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Telephone Consumer Protection Act Telecommunications Class Action

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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New York Federal Court Certifies TCPA Class Where Phone Numbers Were Obtained Through a Third-Party Website

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In Aley v. Lightfire Partners, LLC, a U.S. District Court in the Northern District of New York certified aa Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class action for all persons whose telephone numbers were on the National Do...more

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What Constitutes A TCPA Solicitation?

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

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Maryland Federal Court Denies Summary Judgment on TCPA Claim, Finding No Prior Express Written Consent Because E-SIGN Disclosures...

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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

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FTSA Lawsuit Update

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

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11th Circuit rejects a proposed TCPA class action settlement

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

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Eleventh Circuit Eviscerates TCPA Class Action Settlement

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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

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The Eastern District of New York Holds that Spending a “Sizeable Minority of Time” at Your Mother’s House Does not Make You a...

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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

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Speak for Yourself: Court Denies Class Certification in TCPA Case Based on Class Members’ Potentially Mixed Reactions to Ringless...

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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

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TCPA - Ninth Circuit Affirms Decertification of “Junk Fax” Class

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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

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TCPA: Reversing panel decision, full Eleventh Circuit finds single text message sufficient to establish TCPA standing

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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

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11th Circuit Finds One Unwanted Text Message Sufficient to Allow Standing to File Suit in Drazen v. Pinto

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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

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Ninth Circuit Expands Article III Standing For TCPA Claims

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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

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TCPA Turnstile: Scoping out the TCPA – 2023 Midyear Update (TCPA Case Update Vol. 18)

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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

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Eleventh Circuit grants en banc review to resolve controversial TCPA standing ruling

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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

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Pennsylvania Federal Court Certifies TCPA Class Finding Common Question in Determining Existing Business Relationship

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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

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Mini-TCPAs Start to Take Center Stage

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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

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Third Circuit rejects TCPA claim in “junk fax” putative class action

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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

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Wave of Class Actions Targeting Businesses Marketing to Florida

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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

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Ninth Circuit Remand of $925M TCPA Class Award Offers Possible Ceiling on Damages

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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

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California Federal Court Denies Class Certification for Inadequate Plaintiff

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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

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The Ninth Circuit Further Narrows The Meaning Of ATDS Under The Telephone Consumer Protection Act

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

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Florida Middle District Court Finds Receiving Pre-Recorded Voice Messages Insufficient Basis for Standing to Bring Class Action...

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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

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Human Intervention Still Answers the Call: Northern District of California Curtails Text-Based TCPA Class Action

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Companies are continuing to reap the rewards of the Supreme Court’s decision in Facebook v. Duguid earlier this year, in which the Supreme Court confirmed a narrow reading of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (TCPA)...more

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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

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Federal Court Says Voice Service Providers "Mey" Face TCPA Liability for Facilitating Spoofed Robocalls, Denies Motion to Dismiss

When a dialing platform or voice service provider is sued under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), it often can successfully move to dismiss because it did not "make" the calls at issue or is immune from liability...more

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