The TCPA: Basics, Targeted Industries, and Trends
A fax is a fax is a fax… or is it? In a recent ruling in the long-running TCPA junk fax case Career Counseling, Inc. v. AmeriFactors Financial Group, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the statute’s prohibition...more
On September 21, the FCC’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau issued a declaratory ruling clarifying that businesses advertised via fax should not face “sender liability” for unsolicited faxes sent without prior...more
On September 21, 2020, the FCC’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau issued a Declaratory Ruling resolving a petition that sought confirmation that in instances in which an advertiser is “stripped of [its] ability to...more
On December 9, 2019, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released a declaratory ruling in which it found that online fax services that receive unsolicited fax advertisements “sent as email over the...more
In a welcome win to defendants fighting TCPA fax class actions, the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (the Bureau) issued a declaratory ruling finding that a facsimile sent to...more
Oppositions to a petition for certiorari were recently filed with the United States Supreme Court urging the Court to reject a proposed appeal filed by serial Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) plaintiffs seeking review...more
Kelley Drye’s Communications Practice Group presents this tracker of active Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) petitions before the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”). With the recent increase in litigation...more
FCC Confirms Different TCPA Liability Analysis for Text, Fax Broadcasters - Denying a petition filed by Club Texting, Inc., the Federal Communications Commission said it will keep its current liability analysis under the...more
No Need to Wait for the U.S. Supreme Court—Seventh Circuit Rules on Mooting Offers in TCPA Suits - The latest court to weigh in on an offer of judgment in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act Suit: the Seventh Circuit...more