The year 2015 saw a continued wave of class action filings under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). However, unsettled law continues to place a compliance burden on companies that communicate with consumers by phone or text.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) captured headlines with the release of an omnibus declaratory order in July 2015; the omnibus order purported to clarify uncertain rules but left many issues as uncertain as ever, and the order is now facing a legal challenge in the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.