The Telephone Consumer Protection Act regulates the use of auto/predictive dialers, which are used to initiate faxes, prerecorded voice messages, and SMS text messages. But a federal court in the Western District of Wisconsin...more
5/10/2013
- Robocalling TCPA
Filling the vacancy left by outgoing chair Jon Leibowitz, President Barack Obama named Edith Ramirez as the next head of the Federal Trade Commission. As a current commissioner, Ramirez, who was first appointed and confirmed...more
3/6/2013
- Barack Obama Edith Ramirez FTC
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved and published its amended Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) regulations on telemarketing calls, many of which go into effect in 2013. These updates to the TCPA...more
1/11/2013
- Consent FCC FTC Opt-Outs TCPA Telemarketing
October was an active month in the Ninth Circuit for actions under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). In our client alert last week, we discussed the Ninth Circuit's October 12, 2012, decision in Meyer v. Portfolio...more
11/12/2012
