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On February 15, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to adopt rules expressly addressing revocation of consent. The FCC’s stated goals were to “strengthen consumers’ ability to revoke consent” and “codify...more
On February 16, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission released a Report and Order establishing significant new standards regulating Telephone Consumer Protection Act consent and revocation of consent. In recent weeks,...more
On March 5, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission announced that it has adopted new rules and codified previously adopted protections that make it simpler for consumers to revoke consent to unwanted robocalls and...more
On February 15, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published a Report and Order (Order) that attempts to clarify the rules for revoking consent under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Most notably,...more
Commission Declares TCPA Prohibits AI-Generated Voices - Following up on January’s update, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a Declaratory Ruling that confirms that the prohibitions in the Telephone...more
On February 15, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or “the Commission”) adopted a Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“the Order”) pursuant to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) that...more
The FCC adopted a Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking codifying existing revocation of consent requirements and establishing new opt-out rules under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The...more
The FCC has adopted a Report and Order imposing a number of new TCPA caller and sender compliance obligations in connection with consumer revocation requests, which are applicable to calls and text messages that otherwise...more
As we recently previewed, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published its Proposed Rule that would codify its updated guidance on the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The TCPA regulates calls and text...more
The FCC is asking for comments on proposed changes and clarifications to its robocall and robotext requirements for grant and revocation of consumer consents. Revocation of Consent. The FCC wants its current opt-out and...more
The FCC has adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposing to further tighten and to codify in its rules various Commission declaratory rulings on TCPA consent requirements that are applicable to autodialed calls and...more
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act is notorious. It establishes rigorous consent standards to use an autodialer or a prerecorded message. It gives consumers a private right of action. It imposes ruinous statutory damages....more
Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to send you its fifth annual REDIAL: 2018 TCPA YEAR-IN-REVIEW – ANALYSIS OF CRITICAL ISSUES AND TRENDS IN TCPA COMPLIANCE AND LITIGATION. Inside this digital edition, you will find our...more
A great decision for Navient Solutions came down yesterday out of the Northern District of Alabama in Green v. Solutions, No. 1:17-CV-1453-VEH, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 201906 (N.D. Ala. Nov. 29, 2018). Navient Solutions had its...more
Whether and in what form a consumer has given consent to be contacted via an automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS) may be a crucial aspect of determining liability under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)....more
Edible Arrangements did not run afoul of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) by making it unreasonably hard for text recipients to revoke their consent, a New Jersey federal court has ruled....more
This Alert at a Glance - The D.C. Circuit's opinion is a generally positive development for businesses as it rejects two of the most concerning aspects of the 2015 Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) Order—the broad...more
On March 16, 2018, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its long-awaited Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) opinion in ACA International v. Federal Communications Commission, a consolidated appeal of the FCC’s July...more
• The D.C. Circuit reviewed a 2015 FCC order that interpreted the TCPA’s prohibition against using automated dialing devices to make unsolicited calls to cellular telephones. The court set aside two portions of the 2015 Order...more
This article addresses the Court’s reversal of over a decade of confusion regarding autodialers. The TCPA defines an autodialer (automatic telephone dialing system, or ATDS) as “equipment which has the capacity (a) to store...more
Here, we address one significant component of the decision: the D.C. Circuit’s confirmation that consumers may revoke consent to call by any reasonable means but with the qualification that parties may be able to contract...more
Here, we examine the D.C. Circuit’s reversal of not simply the one-call safe harbor for reassigned numbers imposed by the FCC’s 2015 TCPA ruling but also the Commission’s treatment of reassigned numbers as a whole. ...more
In a watershed case, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit) unwound key components of the controversial 2015 ruling by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission)...more
Nearly two and a half years following the appeal of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) July 2015 Order, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued a ruling on March 16, 2018. On appeal, over a...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued its long-awaited decision reviewing the FCC’s 2015 TCPA Declaratory Ruling and Order. In the case of ACA International v. FCC, Case No. 15-1211, the Court, in a 3-0...more