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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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Second Circuit Upholds TCPA Case Dismissal: ATDS Must Generate Phone Numbers, Text Messages Don’t Qualify as Artificial Voices

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In Soliman v. Subway Franchisee Advertising Fund Trust, Ltd, the plaintiff alleged that the defendant violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) by sending a text message to her cell phone using an automatic...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

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Text Message Not An “Artificial or Prerecorded Voice,” Ninth Circuit Rules

A text message does not qualify as an “artificial or prerecorded voice” under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled late this summer. In her TCPA class action,...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Court Denies GrubHub’s Motion to Dismiss in TCPA Class Action

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois denied a motion to dismiss a class action for allegations that GrubHub, Inc. violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The plaintiff alleged that she...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

TCPA Tracker - September 2020

Recent News - FCC to Move Forward on STIR/SHAKEN at September 30 Meeting - On September 9, 2020 the FCC released a draft Second Report and Order for consideration ahead of their open meeting scheduled for September 30,...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

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

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

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

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

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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Narrow Definition of ATDS Prevails in the Seventh Circuit

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In a decision released today, a three judge panel of the Seventh Circuit unanimously joined the growing list of courts to confirm that the “capacity to generate random or sequential numbers is necessary to the statutory...more

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Gadelhak v. AT&T: The Seventh Circuit Joins the Eleventh Circuit in Taking a Big Bite Out of the TCPA

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My last blog post provided a background of the evolving definition of “automated telephone dialing system” (ATDS) under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and described the FCC’s long-running effort to expand the...more

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Eleventh Cir. Rejects Broad Reading of “Autodialer”

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On January 27, 2020, an Eleventh Circuit panel released a landmark ruling in Glasser v. Hilton Grand Vacations Company, LLC. The key issue in the case was how to interpret ambiguous language in the Telephone Consumer...more

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Glasser v. Hilton: Citing Principles of Statutory Interpretation, the Eleventh Circuit Drastically Reduces the Scope of TCPA

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The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA” or the “Act”) has limited telephone calls that can be placed using certain automated equipment since 1991.  However, since passage of the Act there has been considerable debate...more

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Court Holds That Text-Messaging System Must Be Able to Randomly or Sequentially Generate Numbers to Qualify as an ATDS

The Northern District of Illinois recently entered summary judgment against a group of plaintiffs because it found the system at issue was not an ATDS. In Smith v. Premier Dermatology, No. 17-3712, 2019 WL 4261245 (N.D....more

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District Court in the Fifth Circuit Holds that Predictive Dialers are Outside the Scope of the TCPA

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Last week, the Northern District of Texas gave us our first case out of the Fifth Circuit addressing the definition of an ATDS in the post-ACA International era. In Adams v. Safe Home Security, Inc. No. 3:18-CV-03098-M,...more

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Ninth Circuit’s Marks Opinion Continues to Extend its Reach Across the Country

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In Marks v. Crunch San Diego, LLC, 904 F.3d 1041 (9th Cir. 2018), cert. dismissed, 139 S. Ct. 1289 (2019), the Ninth Circuit adopted an expansive definition of an ATDS that includes devices that dial from a stored list of...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Retail Industry Leaders Association Urges the FCC to Address Key TCPA Issues

• Companies across industries continue to face TCPA litigation and address compliance challenges. • The FCC will soon be addressing key TCPA issues in the wake of the D.C. Circuit’s ruling in ACA International. • One...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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Sending A Helping Hand: Seventh Circuit confirms rejection of strict liability standard for definition of a “sender” of...

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TCPAland truly is a hotbed of statutory interpretation. As we eagerly await the ruling on the FCC’s Public Notice concerning the interpretation and scope of the TCPA in the wake of the ACA Int’l decision, and continue to...more

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