On August 8, 2023, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a published opinion holding that conventional text messages do not amount to “artificial or prerecorded voice” calls under the Telephone...more
Since the Supreme Court of the United States issued its 2021 ruling in Facebook v. Duguid, which narrowly interpreted the dialing technologies that are considered an automated telephone dialing system (ATDS) regulated by the...more
The Supreme Court’s 2021 decision in Facebook v. Duguid changed the landscape of Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) litigation. For years prior, aggressive plaintiffs had stretched the TCPA’s antiquated language...more
On April 1, 2021, the Supreme Court answered a question that has been at the heart of the recent wave of class-action litigation under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA) in its long-awaited ruling in...more
Last week, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit issued a long-awaited decision on an omnibus challenge to the FCC’s interpretation of the TCPA. While the decision provides some relief for businesses, it does not...more
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Arbitrary and Capricious ,
ATDS ,
Auto-Dialed Calls ,
Declaratory Rulings ,
Exemptions ,
FCC ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Opt-Outs ,
Prior Express Consent ,
Reassigned Phone Numbers ,
Revocation ,
Robocalling ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Smartphones ,
TCPA ,
Text Messages
A recent decision from a federal court in California found that a retail pharmacy’s “flu shot reminder” calls to mobile phones fall within the FCC’s TCPA safe harbor for exigent health care treatment messages. But the holding...more