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Readers of this blog know that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) is an oft-discussed topic, with companies continuing to find themselves named as defendants in TCPA lawsuits. Thankfully, two recent decisions...more
A U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland recently denied summary judgment in a case under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), finding that the defendant failed to show it received prior express written...more
Readers of our blog may recall a recent piece in which we discussed a Florida Telephone Solicitation Act (“FTSA”) lawsuit pending in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. In Morris v. Lincare,...more
On May 13, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit vacated and remanded a proposed TCPA class action settlement agreement. The class, consolidated from three class actions, accused the defendant, the “world’s...more
On May 13, 2024, in Drazen v. GoDaddy.com, LLC, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued a scathing, 123-page decision reversing a district court’s approval of a class-action settlement in...more
Bank v. ICOT Holdings, LLC, 18-cv-02554 (AMD) (PK), 2024 WL 278460 (E.D.N.Y. Jan. 25, 2024) - Pro se Plaintiff, an attorney, filed a class action lawsuit alleging that two calls he answered at his mother’s house...more
On January 18, a court in the Eastern District of Wisconsin denied class certification in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) case concluding that the factual issue of whether the proposed class members had suffered an...more
Takeaway: In True Health Chiropractic, Inc. v. McKesson Corp., No. 22-15710, 2023 WL 7015279, at *1 (9th Cir. Oct. 25, 2023), the Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court’s decertification of a “junk fax” class, finding that...more
A Florida state court recently granted final approval to a $40 million deal in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class action, signaling that defendants are still facing the potential for sizable settlements....more
Takeaway: In Drazen v. Pinto, 74 F.4th 1336 (11th Cir. 2023) (en banc), the Eleventh Circuit held a single “unwanted, illegal” text message sufficient to establish concrete injury for standing purposes. This holding...more
In the case of Drazen v. Pinto, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals sitting en banc ruled unanimously that plaintiffs who received a single unwanted telemarketing text message suffered a concrete injury. In 2019, Susan...more
In the intricate and often convoluted realm of TCPA litigation, the Ninth Circuit’s recent decision in Hall v. Smosh Dot Com, Inc. stands as a beacon, illuminating the complexities of Article III standing and the implications...more
Just over halfway through 2023, nationwide TCPA jurisprudence is focused on further delineating the scope of the TCPA. As the dust settles from earlier battles over defining ATDS requirements, the cases from this year are...more
The Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to an en banc review of a notable decision issued last July with respect to Article III standing for purposes of a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) lawsuit. The...more
A plaintiff’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class action claims failed in the face of an established business relationship defense, an Illinois federal court has ruled....more
We have written about the Eleventh Circuit’s controversial ruling in Salcedo v. Hanna, 936 F.3d 1162 (11th Cir. 2019). See Eleventh Circuit reinvigorates Spokeo in single text message TCPA case (Sep. 11, 2019). In Salcedo,...more
In a class action lawsuit against Pisa Group, Inc. for alleged violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the plaintiff moved to certify a class of all persons in the United States who received more than one...more
After years of litigation in federal courts across the country over purported Telephone Consumer Protect Act (TCPA) violations, there has been a recent shift in focus to what is known as mini-TCPAs being enacted by state...more
On January 19, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit unanimously affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a Telephone Consumer Protection Act claim arising from allegedly illegal faxes about a free educational...more
Wave of Class Actions Targeting Businesses Marketing to Florida Is your business at risk? With the 2022 surge of telemarketing class actions, businesses need to be increasingly concerned about their practices and...more
Allowable statutory damages under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) have a floor of $500 and, generally speaking, determining total damages is a simple math calculation. In the class action scenario, however, this...more
The district court for the Northern District of California recently granted a motion to deny class certification in an action brought under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) based on the plaintiff’s inability to...more
Among other things, the federal TCPA imposes liability for calling/texting cell phone numbers using an Automatic Telephone Dialing System (“ATDS”) without sufficient prior express consent. As defined by the TCPA, ATDS is...more
Certifying two classes in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class action, a New York federal court found that questions of individualized consent did not predominate and that the plaintiffs did not need to...more
On November 2, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida held, sua sponte, that a plaintiff did not have standing to bring a class action suit alleging a TCPA violation. The February 9, 2022 complaint...more