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Telephone Consumer Protection Act Unsolicited Phone Calls

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act is a United States federal statute enacted in 1991 to protect consumers from unsolicited telephone marketing calls.  
Klein Moynihan Turco LLP

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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Georgia joins growing list of states with “mini-TCPAs”

On May 6, 2024, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed into law SB 73, which amends Georgia’s existing telemarketing laws, officially adding Georgia to the growing patchwork of states across the country that have introduced their...more

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Revised Georgia Telemarketing Law Takes Effect On July 1, 2024

On May 6, 2024, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed Senate Bill 73 (“SB 73”) into law. SB 73 amends Title 46 of the Official Code of Georgia (“OCGA”), Georgia’s telemarketing law, with the goal of curbing the proliferation of...more

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FCC Adopts Declaratory Ruling Confirming AI Voice Calls are Subject to TCPA, Takes Enforcement Action Against Provider Allegedly...

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On February 2, the FCC unanimously adopted a declaratory ruling, effective immediately, confirming the seemingly unremarkable conclusion that artificial intelligence (“AI”) generated messages or voice calls fall within the...more

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Battling the Robocall Onslaught: The FCC’s Strategic Measures Against AI-Driven Scams

Aiming to curb the use of AI, voice cloning technology in robocall scams, on February 8, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a unanimous declaratory ruling prohibiting unsolicited robocalls with voices...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Eleventh Circuit Overturns Salcedo, Holding that One Text is Sufficient for TCPA Standing

In a unanimous en banc decision, the Eleventh Circuit recently held that “a single unwanted, illegal telemarketing text message” is sufficient to allege a concrete injury under the TCPA. Drazen v Pinto, No. 21-10199, 2023 WL...more

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New TCPA Rules For Prerecorded Calls To Landlines Take Effect July 20

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Major changes to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) regulations applicable to unsolicited informational robocalls to landlines are coming into effect on July 20, 2023. As anyone with a landline telephone during...more

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TCPA Violations Lead to $40 Million Settlement for Real Estate Company

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On April 19, a Florida court preliminarily approved a $40 million class-action settlement by a privately held major real estate company over claims that it violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The complaint...more

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Florida Amends Mini-TCPA, Clarifies Confusion

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Nearly two years ago, the Florida legislature amended Florida’s Telephone Solicitation Act (FTSA), Fla. Stat. § 501.059, resulting in voluminous consumer class action and other litigation after there had previously been next...more

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FTSA Does Not Apply to Calls Selling Services to Businesses

The Middle District of Florida partially rejected a plaintiff’s motion for entry of final default judgment in Brown v. Care Front Funding, No. 8:22-cv-02408-VMC-JSS, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 60879 (M.D. Fla. Apr. 6, 2023),...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

[Webinar] 2023 Privacy Litigation Trends - February 15th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET

The proliferation of privacy-related law suits filed against a wide range of companies related to website tracking/analytics will continue in 2023, joining robocall and biometric privacy disputes. Join Kelley Drye Privacy...more

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Federal Court Finds Text Messages From a Chatbot Do Not Constitute a Prerecorded or Artificial Voice Under the TCPA

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Do text messages sent by a chatbot fall within the provisions of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) prohibiting unsolicited calls made using an “artificial or prerecorded voice?” According to the United States...more

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Hold the Phones: State-level Telemarketing Laws In Effect

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Given the business disruptions caused by COVID-19, many companies welcomed the ease and minimal costs of using dialing and texting platforms to reach existing and new customers for marketing and sales. ...more

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New Oklahoma Telephone Solicitation Act Is Not OK - But It Does Contain an Important Exemption

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Late last week, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed the state’s Telephone Solicitation Act of 2022 (OTSA) into law. A couple of months ago, as the legislation was working its way through the Oklahoma state legislature,...more

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S.D. Cal. Court Dismisses Claims, Finding Text Messages at Issue Were Not “Telephone Solicitations”

The Southern District of California recently granted (in part) a motion to dismiss in Gross v. GG Homes, Inc., 2021 WL 2863623 (S.D. Cal. 2021), because the text messages at issue were not “telephone solicitations” within the...more

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Florida Telemarketing Alert: Florida Likely Has Adopted Strict Rules on Marketing Phone Calls, Text Messages, and Voicemails

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On April 28, 2021, both houses of the Florida legislature unanimously voted to amend Florida’s Telemarketing Act with CS/SB 1120 (the “Act”). The Act was presented to Florida Governor Ron Desantis on June 28, and approved by...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

[Webinar] Tips from the Experts – Defending TCPA Lawsuits – Using Data Analysis Strategies and Support - April 29th, 2:00 pm ET

If you communicate with clients and prospects through phone call, text message, or fax campaigns, you are certainly familiar with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) that applies to these and other areas of direct...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

The Eleventh Circuit Holds That Receipt of a Single Text Does Not Satisfy Article III

The Eleventh Circuit recently held that receiving a single unsolicited text message does not amount to the harm required to sustain a TCPA claim. In Salcedo v. Hanna, John Salcedo brought a TCPA claim against his former...more

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Court Rejects Attempt to Treble $925 Million Statutory Damages Award

The District of Oregon recently denied a motion for treble damages following a jury verdict finding that defendant made over 1.8 million advertising calls to the named plaintiff and other members of a certified class....more

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Like to Live Dangerously? Have I Got a Deal for You!

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Do you have too much positive goodwill in the community and marketplace? Need to shed some so you can pump up your bad boy image? How would you like to engage in some illegal conduct that will result in claims of invasion of...more

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Doesn’t Matter if You Didn’t Put a Ring On It: Ringless Voicemails Are “Calls” Under the TCPA

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The Southern District of Florida recently ruled that ringless voicemails (RVM) are “calls” under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). In Schaevitz v. Braman Hyundai, No. 1:17-cv-23890 (S.D. Fla. Mar. 25, 2019) the...more

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A Sign of Things to Come in TCPA Lawsuits?: Plaintiffs Use Lack of Article III Standing as a Sword to Avoid Federal Jurisdiction

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We reported last month on a case where a defendant had moved to dismiss a plaintiff’s TCPA claim based on lack of Article III standing, only to end up back in the state court from which the case was removed. And just as Jay...more

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Talk About Bad News: Dallas Morning News hit With TCPA Class Action Claiming Dying Circulation Prompted Illegal Call Campaign

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Its not easy running a newspaper these days. Half the country will think you’re fake news and the other half will wonder why you’re even printing stuff on paper anymore (even the picture of the newspapers above makes me think...more

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It Wasn’t Me! New York Court Denies Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss TCPA Action Finding That Plaintiff Sufficiently Alleged that...

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The Eastern District of New York in Banks v. Solar, No. 17-CV-613 (LDH) (JO), 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 128182 (E.D.N.Y. July 31, 2018), recently denied Defendant’s motion to dismiss Plaintiff’s putative class action alleging...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Calls to VoIP App May Trigger TCPA Liability

A federal court in Wisconsin held that calls made using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) apps may result in liability under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) where the called party incurs a charge for the call...more

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