Seattle Opt-Out Ordinance Struck Down
The Yellow Pages industry won a big victory yesterday when the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Seattle's tough opt-out ordinance in a unanimous decision. The court based…
Berkeley City Council Votes to Expand Opt-Out Program
The Berkeley City Council passed a two-part bill this week to expand a phone-book opt-out program in California. The bill passed in two parts. The first segment of the bill,…
Yellow Pages Industry Files Suit Against Opt-In
The Local Search Association filed suit today against the City and County of San Francisco, the Board of Supervisors, and Mayor Edwin Lee asking the U.S. District Court to overturn…
SF Mayor Signs Opt-in Ordinance
We just learned that San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has signed into law the San Francisco opt-in ordinance. Lee's signature was anticipated since the ordinance passed the city's Board of…
San Francisco Opt-In Ordinance Passes
Yesterday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed the opt-in ordinance that the Yellow Pages industry had vigorously opposed. Immediately following the vote, the Local Search Association (formerly the Yellow…
San Francisco Delays Opt-In Vote, Seeks More Info
In a move that can be seen as a victory for the Yellow Pages industry, the San Francisco board of supervisors decided to delay a vote on its contentious Yellow…
San Francisco Supervisors to Mull Opt-In Measure Today
The San Francisco board of supervisors (the city council, essentially) today will consider a phone book opt-in ordinance that directory publishers believe will be devastating to their business. The measure,…
San Francisco’s Opt-In Effort Advances
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors president, bent on banning the unsolicited delivery of phone books, has introduced an opt-in ordinance, as promised. The measured has gotten at least one…
Seattle Makes Concessions on Opt-Out Ordinance
The City of Seattle has modified its tough Yellow Pages opt-out ordinance, but apparently not sufficiently to make a federal lawsuit challenging the ordinance go away. The city has eliminated…
California Opt-Out Bill Alarms YP Industry
For the past few years, the U.S. Yellow Pages industry has been playing a nationwide version of the arcade game "whack a mole" -- beating down one opt-in or opt-out…