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Class Action Class Certification Prior Express Consent

A class action is a type of legal action where a representative individual or group of individuals can bring a claim on behalf of a larger group or class who share a common legal interest.
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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

Robinson+Cole Class Actions Insider

Seventh Circuit: Defendants Need Not Prove Merits of Defenses to Defeat Class Certification

A recent Seventh Circuit decision makes an important point about how the principle that a court generally need not resolve the merits to decide class certification is bilateral – it applies to both affirmative claims and...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Court Denies Class Certification Due to Plaintiff’s Lack of Objective Criteria and Lack of Evidence

The Western District of Michigan recently denied a motion to certify a class after holding that the class was not ascertainable and the plaintiff had not offered persuasive evidence in support of the motion. Visser v....more

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District Court Denies Class Certification Due to Lack of Ascertainability

Recently, the Middle District of Florida denied a motion for class certification, finding that the plaintiff had not sufficiently shown that the putative classes were ascertainable. Sliwa v. Bright House Networks, LLC &...more

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Ninth Circuit Affirms Certification Of Biometric Privacy Class Action Against Facebook

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On August 8, the Ninth Circuit issued a highly anticipated decision affirming the district court’s certification of a class of Facebook users who suffered alleged violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act...more

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Court Denies Class Certification Due to Individualized Issues Regarding Recipients’ Consent to Receipt of Faxes

In E&G, Inc. v. Mount Vernon Mills, Inc., No. 17-0218, 2019 WL 4032951 (D.S.C. Aug. 22, 2019), the District of South Carolina denied class certification because individualized issues—specifically, whether recipients had...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Ask and You Shall Be Deemed to Have Consented to Receive: The Eleventh Circuit Affirms TCPA Fax Summary Judgment

Consent is the most powerful weapon companies have against TCPA liability, and a recent Eleventh Circuit opinion illustrates how. In Gorss Motels, Inc. v. Safemark Systems, L.P., the Eleventh Circuit affirmed summary judgment...more

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TCPA: district court strikes class allegations due to individualized issues of consent and revocation

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Takeaway: More class actions are filed under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) than any other statute, and TCPA claims often present common issues capable of class certification. But courts will not certify a...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

TCPA Class Allegations Stricken Due to “Unique Defenses Peculiar to Plaintiff’s Case”

The Northern District of Illinois recently clarified that a “revocation class” that defines a putative class as those having made “a request to stop calling [their] number” does not satisfy Rule 23(b)(3)’s predominance...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

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

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

California Court Denies Class Certification in ‘Wrong Number’ Case

A California federal court judge refused to certify a class of plaintiffs in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) lawsuit against Citibank, determining that individualized issues of consent would predominate in a case...more

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Ninth Circuit Upholds Decertification of Class in Unauthorized Customer Call Recording Suit Where the Class Representative Did Not...

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Seyfarth Synopsis: On June 5, 2019, the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion in NEI Contr. & Eng’g, Inc. v. Hanson Aggregates Pac. Sw., Inc., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 16885 (9th Cir. June 5, 2019), upholding the district court’s...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

“Sorry, Wrong Number”: Northern District of California Denies Certification in TCPA Class Action

As we have noted before, whether a claimant under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) gave “prior express consent” to receiving communications from the defendant is frequently a critical issue (and often the only...more

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Question Of Consent Turns Putative TCPA Fax Class Action Into Junk

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A recent decision by a Connecticut district court reiterates that the issue of consent may foreclose class certification in Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) junk fax cases....more

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Class Certification Ruling Shows TCPA Perils Involved With Online Lead Generation

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From the perspective of a litigator and trial lawyer, the online lead generation supply chain gives me heartburn sometimes. The problem is one of evidence. In the world of online lead generation and digital marketing, the...more

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Too Close for Comfort: Plaintiff's Ties to Class Counsel Leads to Denial of TCPA Class Action Certification

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Certification in a TCPA class action almost always turns on whether the issue of consent can be determined by common proof. But every once in a while, a class representative is found to be inadequate based on their close ties...more

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Bad Plan: Court Approves Certification in TCPA Text Message Case Including Remarkable...

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Well now I’ve seen everything. Yep. Everything. Yesterday a court in Florida certified a TCPA class action against Pizza Hut and some of its marketing partners/friends/afilliates, whatever, that’s not the point. Because...more

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Putting on a Clinic: A Breakdown of Citi’s Recent Major Success Defeating Certification in a Revocation and Wrong Number TCPA...

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CitiGroup, Inc. (“Citi”) just defeated certification in a massive class action in the consumer-friendly Northern District of Illinois in the case of Tomeo v. CitiGroup, Inc., No. 13-C-4046, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 166117 (N.D....more

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Pro Se It Ain’t So: Self-Represented Attorney in Putative TCPA Class Action Found by Court Not to be Qualified to Represent Class

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In Doyle v. Fla. Health Sol., Inc., No. 17-12231 (JMV) (MF), 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 148340 (D.N.J. Aug. 29, 2018), the court had to determine – at the pleading stage – whether a pro se plaintiff who is a licensed attorney...more

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Finding Solid Ground: Junk Fax TCPA Certification Opinions Slowly Aligning with Certification Approach Applied in Other TCPA...

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Outside of the fax context, the chances of certifying a TCPA case have turned almost exclusively on whether class member phone numbers all derived from a “single source” or from multiple different sources. This fact seems to...more

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Predominance Dominance: Certification Denied in TCPA Fax Case Owing to Diverse Issues of Consent

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I’m at a wedding. But real quick, did you see the class action denial in Khs Corp. v. Singer Fin. Corp. Case No. 16-55, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 143337 (E.D. Pa Aug. 23, 2018)? Its good stuff....more

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Anatomy of a Disaster: Court Certifies “Bad/Wrong Number” TCPA Code Class Owing to Defendants’ Apparent Failure to Maintain TCPA...

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While most Courts (properly) refuse to certify wrong number class actions in multi-source TCPA cases, at least one bank was just reminded how dangerous wrong number TCPA class actions remain. This is especially true when a...more

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Careful What You Wish For – Additional Discovery Requested By TCPA Class Plaintiff Leads To Decertification Order In Northern...

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Federal courts have a continuing obligation to ensure that class action certification remains appropriate throughout the duration of a case. Accordingly, it is well established that if class certification is later deemed...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

5 TCPA Class Action Trends to Watch in 2018 – Legislation, Administrative Law & Litigation

Have the GOP’s Hopes for Enacting the Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act Been Dashed? – Passed in March 2017 by the U.S. House of Representatives, the Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2017, H.R. 985, has...more

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Federal Court Denies Class Certification in TCPA Suit Against Auto-Lender Exeter Finance

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In Billy Ginwright v. Exeter Finance Corp., No. 8:16-cv-565-TDC, ECF No. 107, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 194739, 2017 WL 5716756 (D. Md. Nov. 28, 2017), a federal district court recently denied Plaintiff’s motion to certify a...more

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