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Biography for Paul Gluckman

Paul Gluckman, Executive Senior Editor, is a 30-year Warren Communications News veteran having joined the company in May 1989 to launch its Audio Week publication. In his long career, Paul has chronicled the rise and fall of physical entertainment media like the CD, DVD and Blu-ray and the advent of ATSC 3.0 broadcast technology from its rudimentary standardization roots to its anticipated 2020 commercial launch.

Recent Articles by Paul Gluckman

The four plaintiff-appellees who allege that Ford duped them into buying or leasing its vehicles with inoperable 3G modems following AT&T’s “decommissioning” of its 3G network in 2022 should have submitted their claims to arbitration “as provided by the individual arbitration agreements they each entered into,” said the automaker’s opening brief Wednesday (docket 23-3966) in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.Read More >>

A 3rd U.S. Circuit Appeals Court panel of Judges Michael Chagares, David Porter and Anthony Scirica affirmed the district court's July 18 decision dismissing Andrew Perrong’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act case against the Democratic Committee of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, for failure to state a claim (see 2308090033), said Chagares’ opinion Wednesday (docket 23-2415).Read More >>

Sheila and Dennis Thompson were correct to ask U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark for Eastern Missouri to remand count II of their first amended Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint against Vintage Stock to St. Louis County Circuit Court where it originated before the home entertainment retailer removed it in January 2023, said Clark’s memorandum and order Tuesday (docket 4:23-cv-00042).Read More >>

Peacock TV and NBC “intentionally designed” their apps to collect and transmit subscribers’ video viewing history and personally identifiable information (PII) to third parties, said Amma Afriyie and Roy Campbell in their memorandum of law Friday (docket 1:23-cv-09433) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan in opposition to the defendants’ motion to dismiss (see 2401220054).Read More >>