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$100,000.00 Fine for Violation of No-Call List Law
Businessman Gabriel Gouvas of Anderson, Indiana has been ordered to pay more than $100,000 in fines for violating the state's no-call list law. The law, which took effect in January 2002, allows people to put their telephone numbers on a list to block calls from most telemarketers. The attorney general's office received more than 60 complaints regarding calls from Gouvas' satellite TV companies. After refusing to accept the attorney general's initial offer, which would have amounted to $3,550 in fines, Madison Superior Court Judge Dennis Carrol ordered Gouvas to pay a fine and issued a permanent injunction to prevent Gouvas and his employees from calling people who put their telephone numbers on a no-call list. This is the first time the state has sued to stop a company from violating the no-call list law since it took effect.
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