Continuing its focus on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in robocalls, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) sent letters to nine telecommunications companies asking about the efforts they are taking to prevent...more
A California federal court recently granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) claim brought by a plaintiff alleging that she received a trio of unwanted phone calls, finding that she...more
A Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) plaintiff who was neither a subscriber of the telephone number nor a customary user of the number failed to state a claim under the statute, a New York federal court has ruled....more
A Pennsylvania federal court has ruled that a lawmaker can be held personally liable under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) for prerecorded robocalls that were intended as government communications to...more
Calls and messages encouraging a recipient to sign up for free nutrition counseling services did not constitute telephone solicitations within the meaning of the TCPA, according to a reported decision from a Wisconsin federal...more
An insurance company is on the hook for calls made by its agents after a decision from a federal court in Illinois.
Two Allstate agents in Texas, Jason Fleming and Daniel Gilmond, hired Transfer Kings to place calls on...more
An Arizona federal court determined that opt-in texts could violate the TCPA in a new decision.
Although Monica Abboud registered her phone number on the National Do Not Call Registry, she alleged that she received...more
The purported existence of a telemarketing contract and facts suggesting control over the calling party was enough to avoid dismissal of a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) claim for vicarious liability in Pennsylvania...more
In the first decision on the issue, an Arizona federal court held that a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) text didn’t run afoul of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)....more
A unanimous en banc Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the court’s prior precedent and ruled that the receipt of a single text message is sufficient to establish Article III standing for purposes of a Telephone...more
The Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to follow Federal Communications Commission (FCC) guidance when it ruled that faxes offering a “free dinner” did not run afoul of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act...more
The failure of a plaintiff in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) action to properly identify the defendant led a New Jersey federal court to dismiss the action with prejudice....more
As part of Manatt’s continuing monthly coverage of the aftermath of Facebook v. Duguid and how district courts are applying it to determine whether a calling system meets the Supreme Court’s newly clarified definition of an...more
States are continuing their focus on telemarketing, with updates and new laws in Arizona, Florida, Maryland, Mississippi, Tennessee and Washington, and a bill in Georgia waiting on a gubernatorial signature. Many of these are...more
As part of Manatt’s continuing monthly coverage of the aftermath of Facebook v. Duguid and how district courts are applying it to determine whether a calling system meets the Supreme Court’s newly clarified definition of an...more
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A federal court in Missouri granted class certification in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) action that could cost the defendant almost $4 million for allegedly sending unsolicited faxes....more
As part of Manatt’s continuing monthly coverage of the aftermath of Facebook v. Duguid and how district courts are applying it to determine whether a calling system meets the Supreme Court’s newly clarified definition of an...more
In a victory for a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) defendant, a Florida federal court judge sua sponte found that a plaintiff lacked standing to bring the case. ...more
A California federal court recently rejected a plaintiff’s contention that text messages from a chatbot fell within the provisions of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) prohibiting unsolicited calls made using an...more
Though there has been some debate in the courts on this front, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) clarified its position in a recent declaratory ruling issued in November 2022, concluding that callers...more
A federal court in Texas allowed a plaintiff to bring a claim for a defendant’s failure to maintain a do not call list, joining a growing number of jurisdictions to recognize a private right of action for such a claim under...more
Following in the footsteps of Florida, Oklahoma and Washington, Michigan is considering its own state analogue of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)....more
Ruling on the health care exemption in the context of phone calls from an eye care provider, the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois recently held that a plaintiff’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)...more
Does the receipt of a single ringless voicemail (RVM) create federal Article III standing for a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) suit? No, an Ohio federal court has ruled, finding that the plaintiff failed to allege...more
As part of Manatt’s continuing monthly coverage of the aftermath of Facebook v. Duguid and how district courts are applying it to determine whether a calling system meets the Supreme Court’s newly clarified definition of an...more