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The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) landscape continues to evolve as new legislation is implemented and courts across various jurisdictions grapple with complex issues regarding standing, agency, and consent. This...more
A federal judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri recently dismissed a claim alleging multiple violations of the TCPA’s do-not-call regulations upon finding that plaintiffs had failed to...more
A Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) defendant may be able to evade a lawsuit after pointing to contract terms that required its third-party vendor to comply with the statute in a new decision from Missouri....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
The owner and subscriber of a cellphone listed on the National Do Not Call Registry has Article III standing to bring claims under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) for unsolicited calls or text messages directed...more
The Ninth Circuit recently issued two noteworthy TCPA decisions. Most recently, in Borden v. eFinancial, LLC, No. 21-35746, 2022 WL 16955661 (9th Cir. Nov. 16, 2022), the Court addressed one of the most hot-button issues in...more
Widening a split among courts that have considered the issue, a North Carolina district court held that a violation of the Do Not Call (DNC) regulations of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) triggered liability under...more
The Southern District of California recently granted (in part) a motion to dismiss in Gross v. GG Homes, Inc., 2021 WL 2863623 (S.D. Cal. 2021), because the text messages at issue were not “telephone solicitations” within the...more
On December 16, 2019, the Supreme Court denied DISH Network’s petition for certiorari seeking to overturn a $61 million judgment for Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) violations based on telemarking calls made to...more
On November 15, the Eleventh Circuit vacated an order certifying a class of individuals who claimed to have received robocalls in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), holding that the district court...more
The Eleventh Circuit last month issued a significant class action opinion in Cordoba v. DirectTV, LLC, vacating a class certified in a TCPA class action and remanding the case. The issue underlying the court’s decision was...more
On November 15, the Eleventh Circuit decided Cordoba v. DirecTV, LLC, further exploring the issue of when class actions achieve Article III standing. The plaintiffs alleged that DirecTV and the company with which it...more
Real Property Update - Foreclosure / Rehearing: Order denying rehearing on summary judgment motion and denying continuance affirmed where (1) affidavit in support of rehearing failed to disclose any genuine issue of...more
The Eleventh Circuit last week issued a common-sense ruling vacating class certification in a TCPA case—an area of the law where common sense does not always prevail. In Cordoba v. DIRECTV, LLC, No. 19-12077 (11th Cir. Nov....more
With its potential for lucrative statutory damages, the TCPA attracts serial litigants like moths to a flame. In response, some businesses are trying to help callers avoid calling numbers associated with serial litigants by...more
The recent decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirming the district court's judgment imposing more than $61 million in damages against Dish Network for its vendor's violations of the Telephone...more
Real Property Update - Public Official Standing Doctrine: county school district that benefited from ad valorem taxes charged by county could not challenge constitutionality of statutory tax exemption claimed by homeowners...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On May 30, 2019, the Fourth Circuit issued an opinion in Krakauer v. Dish Network, L.L.C., No. 18-1518 (4th Cir. May 30, 2019), that paved the way for TCPA plaintiffs to collect historic awards from...more
On May 30, 2019, the Fourth Circuit affirmed a $61,000,000 classwide judgment against Dish Network based on violations of the TCPA’s National Do Not Call Registry (“DNC”) rules committed by Dish’s outside agent Satellite...more
The TCPA is a serial litigant’s playground. Each has their own playbook, but one of the most common plays is listing a cell number online as a business phone number to lure calls from business-to-business marketers. Unwary...more
Phone calls made to promote a movie constituted “telemarketing” under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) even though the two prerecorded messages left on the plaintiffs’ home phone line made no reference to the...more