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Mid-Year TCPA Roundup: Navigating Recent Legislative and Litigation Developments

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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

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FCC Rules AI-Generated Voices Fall Under TCPA Restrictions

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Yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a unanimous ruling that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (TCPA) restrictions on the use of “artificial or prerecorded voices” apply to AI technology that...more

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Texas Court Finds COVID Message Meets Emergency Purposes Exception

Creating a split in authority, a Texas federal court determined that a text message providing information about a free COVID-19 vaccine was covered by the “emergency purposes” exception to the Telephone Consumer Protection...more

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FCC Addresses TCPA ATDS Definition in Win for P2P Texting Platforms

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The FCC’s proceedings regarding the definition of the term “automatic telephone dialing system” have been pending since May of 2018 when, shortly after the D.C. Circuit’s opinion in ACA International v. FCC, the Commission...more

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TCPA Developments on Definition of ATDS Continue Full Steam in Midst of Global Pandemic

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COVID-19 has closed courts and delayed hearings and trials across the country, but developments concerning the definition of an automatic telephone dialing system have continued unabated. Over the past few months, courts have...more

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Second Circuit Decision Widens Circuit Split in TCPA Landscape

- In a departure from the majority view, the 2nd Circuit has held that a texting platform need not have the capacity for random or sequential number generation in order to constitute an an automatic telephone dialing system...more

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Circuit Split Created as Eleventh and Seventh Circuits Narrowly Interpret Definition of Auto-Dialer Under the TCPA

We now have a split among federal circuits regarding the definition of an automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS), under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), which limits automated calls and text messages. What...more

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First Lower Court in Eleventh Circuit Follows Glasser in Granting Summary Judgment in TCPA Case

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The Eleventh Circuit in Glasser v. Hilton Grand Vacations Co., LLC recently confirmed that the definition of Automatic Telephone Dialing System (ATDS) is narrow, holding that to qualify a dialer must both have the capacity to...more

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Seventh Circuit Disagrees with Ninth Circuit and Joins the Third and Eleventh Circuit in Adopting a Narrow Interpretation of ATDS

In a decision released on February 19 that relied principally on rules of grammar, the Seventh Circuit held that to be an ATDS under the TCPA, a device must be capable of storing or producing telephone numbers using a random...more

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Eleventh Circuit Reins in TCPA Liability

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The Situation: The Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA") prohibits unconsented calls or texts made "using an automatic telephone dialing system" ("ATDS"), defined as "equipment which has the capacity—(1) to store or...more

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Sixth Circuit Affirms TCPA Summary Judgment Based on Lack of Random or Sequential Number Generation

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In Gary v. Trueblue, Inc., 346 F.Supp.3d 1040 (E.D. Mich. Oct. 11, 2018), the court granted the Defendant’s motion for summary judgment on the basis that Plaintiff failed to establish the Defendant’s dialing system had the...more

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Court Finds Texting Platform Not ATDS Under “Plain Meaning” of TCPA Statute

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It has almost been a year since the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit released its decision in ACA International v. FCC, and since that time we have highlighted numerous cases in which a court’s...more

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Using Prior FCC Rulings and Focusing on Human Intervention, Court Finds Texting Platform Is Not An ATDS

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In today’s world of ever-conflicting TCPA rulings, it is important to remember that, where courts are asked to determine the TCPA’s ATDS definition, their inquiry will revolve around the question of whether that definition...more

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Ninth Circuit Adopts Expansive Definition of Auto-Dialer in TCPA Case

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In a ruling that increases liability for companies that use text messaging for marketing or communicating with customers, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit adopted an expansive definition of what constitutes an...more

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It Will All Come Out in the “Wash”: Did a Southern California District Court Just Solve the TCPA’s ACA Int’l/ATDS Conundrum Once...

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Sometimes the most obvious answer is the hardest one to see. For weeks now the courts have been debating whether the 2003 and 2008 Predictive Dialer Rulings were set aside by ACA Int’l or just the 2015 TCPA Omnibus ruling....more

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First-in-the-Nation TCPA Result: Court Holds Direct Dropped Voicemails are Covered by the TCPA

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Despite Jay Edelson’s pronouncement this week that there is no new ground to till in TCPAland, a court this week just issued yet another first-in-the-nation ruling and it could have a big impact on users of so-called “direct...more

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