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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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Florida Court Finds One Unwanted Text Message Does Not Cause Concrete Harm, Remands FTSA Case to State Court

In Weitz v. Genting New World LLC, No. 1:22-cv-23209-BLOOM, 2023 WL 2328365, at *1 (S.D. Fla. Mar. 2, 2023), Plaintiff Brandon Weitz brought suit against Defendant Genting New World LLC on behalf of himself and a putative...more

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The Eleventh Circuit’s Minority View of Article III Results in Dismissal of Another TCPA Case

The District Court for the Southern District of Florida recently dismissed a TCPA lawsuit for lack of Article III standing, holding that five unsolicited text messages did not constitute a concrete injury. Muccio v. Global...more

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For Cannabis Dispensaries, Ounce of Prevention Worth More than Pound of Cure

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Imagine facing the prospect of a crippling class action lawsuit and having to engage in costly discovery to disprove the claims, even where clear evidence of innocence is presented at the pleading stage. For one cannabis...more

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Eastern District of Pennsylvania Court Holds Text Claim Satisfies Article III, Then Dismisses for Failure to Allege Enough Facts...

A judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania recently concluded that receipt of unwanted text messages in violation of the TCPA can constitute an injury-in-fact for purposes of Article III...more

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Be Careful What You Wish For: Lack of Article III Standing Comes Back to Bite TCPA Defendants

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Defense arguments about a plaintiff’s lack of standing in federal court can come back to bite them, as shown by the Southern District of Florida’s recent decision in Guerra v. Newport Beach Auto. Grp. LLC, No. 21-20568, 2021...more

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Serial TCPA Litigant Admonished by Court for Making Jurisdictional Allegations Without Factual Support

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The TCPA is a magnet for serial litigants. There are handful of individuals located in various states across the country who seem to account for an outsized share of TCPA filings, and who are sometimes known to resort to...more

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Real Property, Financial Services, & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending February 7, 2020

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Real Property Update - Fraudulent Transfer: Real property that was worth less than mortgage encumbering it was not an asset per the plain language of section 726.102(2) and, therefore, could not support fraudulent transfer...more

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FCC Amends Its Caller ID Rules to Broaden their Scope and Effect

The FCC on August 1 voted to adopt enhanced Truth in Caller ID rules that will subject a broader range of “spoofed” calls to new heftier statutory civil penalty and potentially criminal sanctions for willful and knowing...more

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Agent Actions Don't Equal Personal Jurisdiction in Telephone Consumer Protection Act Case

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The Situation: A federal court in California recently considered whether it had jurisdiction over defendants in a class action under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA") based on the presence in California of the...more

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It Will All Come Out in the “Wash”: Did a Southern California District Court Just Solve the TCPA’s ACA Int’l/ATDS Conundrum Once...

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Sometimes the most obvious answer is the hardest one to see. For weeks now the courts have been debating whether the 2003 and 2008 Predictive Dialer Rulings were set aside by ACA Int’l or just the 2015 TCPA Omnibus ruling....more

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Retail and Consumer Products Law Roundup - August 2017

Data Breach Lawsuits Continue to Fill the Courts - Data breach litigation continues to fill the courts in all stages, with a new class action filed against Tempur Sealy International and the dismissal of a suit against...more

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Common Flaws in Computer Fraud Class Actions: Lawsuits claiming unauthorized use of smartphone tracking technology are lacking key...

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A number of class actions have recently been filed in federal district courts, predicated, in part, on alleged violations of the federal computer crime statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, complaining of tracking...more

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