STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Thousands of people who received a telemarketing call for Dish Network in 2010 or 2011 may be eligible to receive up to $1,200.
Attorneys for a $61 million class action telemarketing judgment against Dish are urging people to check if they are owed money.
A judge ruled last year that Dish Network and its agent, Satellite Systems Network, violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which limits telephone solicitations and requires companies to abide by the Do Not Call Registry.
The judge initially awarded $400 per call, but that award was later tripled to $1,200.
The 51,119 calls at issue in the case were placed between May 11, 2010, and Aug. 1, 2011, to 18,066 telephone numbers across the country, according to a press release.
Only people with those telephone numbers who received the calls during that timeframe and were on the Do Not Call Registry are eligible for payments, attorneys said.
More than 220 million Americans have numbers registered on the Do Not Call Registry. It was established through the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act which was enacted in 1991 and regulates live, prerecorded and "robocall" telemarketing.
To see if your telephone number is among those eligible you can go here. The deadline to join the suit is June 18.
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