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Telephone Consumer Protection Act Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Prior Express Consent

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act is a United States federal statute enacted in 1991 to protect consumers from unsolicited telephone marketing calls.  
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Lack of Actual Knowledge and Prior Express Consent Defeats FDCPA and TCPA Claims

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The U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a case arising under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). It...more

Troutman Pepper

Nevada Federal Court Grants Summary Judgment in Debt Collector’s Favor in FDCPA and TCPA Case Alleging Attorney Representation and...

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On September 9, the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada granted summary judgment in favor of a debt collector in a case involving alleged violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and the...more

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State Collection Services Defeats TCPA/FDCPA Claim: Debtor Gave Effective Consent and No Evidence of Intent to Harass

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Just because the number of TCPA and FDCPA claims is falling (for now) is not necessarily a guarantee that the quality of remaining cases is any better, as evidenced by the Western District of Wisconsin’s recent decision in...more

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Consumer Law Hinsights – December 2020

Consumer Law Hinsights is a monthly compilation of nationwide consumer protection cases of interest to financial services and accounts receivable management companies. Eleventh Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment Win in TCPA...more

Carlton Fields

Financial Services Update: Week Ending November 1, 2019

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Financial Services Update - FCCPA and FDCPA: The plaintiff did not demonstrate a genuine issue of material fact that medical providers and their attorney violated the FCCPA and FDCPA by conditioning medical services on a...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

CFPB and FCC Disconnect: Debt Collection and Call Blocking

On May 21, the CFPB published its long-awaited proposed rule on debt collection practices (“Proposed Rule”) in large part to address application of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”) to modern collection issues....more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

How Caller Got Its Consent Back: Consent Under the TCPA is Revoked and Returned in the Same Call

If your callers are trained well, you have good scripts, and you can document that it happened, it may be possible to get a customer’s consent back in the same call in which it was revoked. ...more

Carlton Fields

Real Property, Financial Services, & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending November 16, 2018

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Real Property Update - Derivative v. Direct Action / Standing: individual member of LLC not entitled to sue title company for breach of fiduciary duty because right to sue belonged to LLC, where LLC suffered the direct...more

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Georgia Federal Court Finds Dialing System is Not an ATDS Due to Human Intervention

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In the wake of the D.C. Circuit’s ruling in ACA International v. Federal Communications Commission, 885 F.3d 687 (D.C. Cir. 2018), which struck down the FCC’s interpretations of “automatic telephone dialing system” (“ATDS”)...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

TCPA Connect - March 2016

Prior Express Consent Exists When Cellphone Number Is Shared With Intermediary - Joining other federal appellate courts, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that prior consent that is provided indirectly to...more

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Eleventh Circuit Addresses TCPA Again: Confirms Validity of 1992 FCC Ruling on “Prior Express Consent”

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It would be difficult to identify a federal circuit court of appeals that has released a larger number of influential consumer finance decisions in the last year than the Eleventh Circuit. And last week, the court continued...more

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