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• 12.13.06
  Pitney Bowes Changes Direction Trying to Avoid Class Action Suit
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  JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is being issued by Wilner Block:Pitney Bowes has changed course radically in trying to defend one of its companies, Imagitas. Imagitas, facing a national class action suit for violation of driver's privacy rights in six states, has now withdrawn a motion for summary judgment that claimed they had not violated the law. They have announced that, instead, they will file a motion for a multi-district litigation (MDL) to handle the violations of the Drivers' Privacy Protection Act (DPPA).A violation of the DPPA invokes a penalty of $2500 per incident. "We estimate that ...
  
  
• 08.17.06
  Motorists Sue Over Ads Placed in Auto Registration Mailings
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  By RON WORDAssociated Press WriterJACKSONVILLE, FL (AP) -- Motorists are suing a subsidiary of Pitney Bowes for placing advertising inside automobile registrationpackets mailed to more than 2 million Florida car owners.Five motorists are listed as plaintiffs, but it could become more than two million or more if the class is certified as a class-action lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges that Imagitas Inc. used personal information it received from the Florida Division of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles "to target and distribute advertising materials."Jacksonville attorney Norwood "Woody" Wilner told reporters Thursday that the use of motorists' names and addresses for commercial purposes ...
  
  
• 08.16.06
  Lawsuit Claims Floridians DMV Information Sold Illegally
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  By Jackelyn Barnard First Coast News JACKSONVILLE, FL-- You get the notices in the mail every single year. It's time to renew that license tag on your car.First Coast News has learned, with some of those notices there is a little something extra that shouldn't be there. There are ads on what cars to buy and what satellites to get. Woody Wilner, of Wilner Block, says the ads are there illegally."The state of Florida is selling the addresses to your car, your address to people who are putting ads in there."Wilner says hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Floridians are the target. Right ...