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Telephone Consumer Protection Act Summary Judgment The United States Federal Communications Commission

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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Fourth Circuit Denies Class Certification Based on Lack of Ascertainability Due to Online Fax Services Being Outside TCPA’s...

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In Career Counseling, Inc. v. Amerifactors Financial Group, LLC, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld a district court’s decision denying class certification in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)...more

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Internal DNC Policies Not Prerequisite to Using EBR Defense, Ohio Southern District Holds

Earlier this month, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio clarified that a TCPA defendant need not maintain an internal do-not-call list and policies in order to invoke the “established business...more

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Seventh Circuit Reaffirms Gadelhak, Rejects Challenge to Narrow ATDS Definition

The Seventh Circuit last week affirmed its holding in Gadelhak v. AT&T Services, Inc., 950 F.3d 458 (7th Cir. 2020) that, to qualify as an “automatic telephone dialing system” (ATDS) under the TCPA, a device or calling system...more

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December 2020 Torts & Insurance Fourth Circuit Cases of Interest

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Periodically, Nexsen Pruet member Marc Manos, a member of the SC Bar Torts and Insurance Practice Section Council, sheds light on a few recent cases from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, focused in the areas of tort &...more

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Court Allows ‘Reasonable Reliance’ on Prior Subscriber Consent

Callers have the right to reasonably rely on the consent of a prior subscriber to a telephone number, a federal district court in Massachusetts has ruled, granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant....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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Federal Missouri Court Continues To Rein In Expansive TCPA Interpretation

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The Telephone Consumer Protection Act case law interpreting the definition of an “automatic telephone dialing system” (“ATDS”) is changing under plaintiffs’ feet and coalescing against the definition set forth in Marks v....more

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Court Finds That Some Soundboard Calls Can Qualify As “Prerecorded Voice” Calls, At Least When They Do Not “Interact With the...

As we previously discussed, the need for clarification as to the TCPA’s treatment of outbound calls made using soundboard technology (“soundboard calls”) is particularly manifest in light of two pending petitions before the...more

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Manatt’s Continuing Coverage on Significant Post-ACA International Developments - September 2019

While the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) continues as a hotbed of consumer litigation, there is still much uncertainty surrounding the proper definition of an automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS) under the TCPA...more

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The Sixth Circuit Limits the Meaning of ATDS Under the TCPA

Recently, the Sixth Circuit in Gary v. Trueblue, Inc., No. 18-2281, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 26959 (6th Cir. Sep. 5, 2019), weighed in on the meaning of Automatic Telephone Dialing System (“ATDS”) under the Telephone Consumer...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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Ask and You Shall Be Deemed to Have Consented to Receive: The Eleventh Circuit Affirms TCPA Fax Summary Judgment

Consent is the most powerful weapon companies have against TCPA liability, and a recent Eleventh Circuit opinion illustrates how. In Gorss Motels, Inc. v. Safemark Systems, L.P., the Eleventh Circuit affirmed summary judgment...more

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First Circuit Concludes that Hybrid Cellular-VoIP Telephone Numbers Are Subject to TCPA

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The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reversed a summary judgment granted in favor of Verizon, by concluding that a “hybrid” telephone number using both VoIP and voice wireless services must be considered “assigned to a…...more

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Real Property, Financial Services, & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending April 26, 2019

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Real Property Update - • Foreclosure / Reverse Mortgage / Condition Precedent: bank failed to establish that the subject property was not the principal residence of surviving co-borrower under its reverse mortgage, a...more

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Fourth Circuit Strikes Down TCPA Exemption for Collection of Government Debt, Putting Loan Servicers and Debt Collectors at Risk

A recent decision by a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit interpreting the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) has significant – and possibly costly – implications for loan servicers and...more

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Navient Wins Summary Judgment: Court Confirms Calls to Collect Government-Backed Debt Exempt From TCPA

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In a recently published decision, a federal court granted student loan processor Navient’s motion for summary judgment, concluding that a statutory exception that makes calls solely to collect a debt owed to or guaranteed by...more

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Manatt’s Continuing Coverage of Significant Post-ACA International Developments - December 2018

As we have previously reported, the ACA International decision from the D.C. Circuit changed the face of litigation in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) world by striking down the Federal Communication Commission’s...more

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District of Minnesota Rejects Marks, Grants Defendant Summary Judgment in TCPA Case

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On November 13, 2018, the District of Minnesota rejected the Ninth Circuit’s expansive interpretation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (TCPA’s) automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS) provision in Marks v. Crunch...more

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Yahoo! Part Deux: Court Reconsiders Prior Ruling in TCPA Class Action and Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Yahoo! on ATDS Use...

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Late last week, a District Court in the Northern District of Illinois reconsidered a ruling it made back in 2014 denying Yahoo!’s summary judgment motion, and granted the motion in light of ACA Int’l. Johnson v. Yahoo!, Inc.,...more

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Government Benefit: Navient Wins Summary Judgment Based on Finding That Calls to Collect Government-Backed Debt are Exempted Under...

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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

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You can’t unring a bell – More courts reject revocation of consent under the TCPA

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

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Any Way You Slice It: Court Holds LiveVox HCI is Not an ATDS Under Even the Broadest Reading of the Term

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Even under Marks, a manually-dialed call remains excluded from the TCPA, at least according to a new decision out yesterday. The District Court in Hatuey v. Ic Sys., No. 1:16-cv-12542-DPW, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 193713 (D....more

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Reversal of Fortune: Court Reconsiders and Reverses Earlier Ruling Finding That Contractual Consent Cannot Be Revoked

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As of yesterday, the “Good Reyes” contractual consent decision in Tina Few v. Receivables Performance Management out of the Northern District of Alabama has officially been reconsidered and reversed. Cue the sad trombone. As...more

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Two First-in-the-Nation Holdings by Lower Court: Minnesota District Court Declines to Follow Marks and Finds That Caller Had the...

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Hold on to your britches everyone. A court in the District of Minnesota just issued a summary judgment ruling with two first-in-the-nation holdings. The first, that the Third Circuit’s holding in Dominguez and the Second...more

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