US Defends Expenses Bill in Dish TCPA Litigation

The bill of costs being sought by the federal government as part of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint against Dish Network is statutorily authorized and reasonable, and the court should overrule Dish's objections (see 1708160007), the FTC and DOJ said in a docket 3:09-cv-03073 response (in Pacer) Friday in U.S. District Court in Springfield, Illinois. The federal government said it spent the past month scrutinizing the invoices from the TCPA litigation's eight-year history and is amending its bill of costs to $385,503, down $10,850 from the original ask. Dish didn't comment Monday.