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TCPA Fax Class Action Doomed: Fax Number on Business Card Constitutes Consent

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Since the enactment of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), the FCC has long held that persons who knowingly and voluntarily release their telephone numbers have provided prior express consent to be called. But...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

REDIAL: 2018 TCPA Year-in-Review – Analysis of Critical Issues and Trends in TCPA Compliance and Litigation

Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to send you its fifth annual REDIAL: 2018 TCPA YEAR-IN-REVIEW – ANALYSIS OF CRITICAL ISSUES AND TRENDS IN TCPA COMPLIANCE AND LITIGATION. Inside this digital edition, you will find our...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Walmart Pharmacy Hit with TCPA Class Action for Sending One Fax Advertisement in District Court of Kentucky

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Lifeback Recovery Center, PLLC has brought a TCPA class action complaint against Walmart Pharmacy in the Western District of Kentucky, contending it received an unsolicited fax advertisement from the pharmacy....more

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REPUBLISHED TCPA Horror Story: 1 Fax+1 Lawsuit = $12.5M Award– Man’s home, business in limbo

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OCEAN CITY – A local man is fighting to save his beachfront home after a crushing legal award of $12.5 million in damages. He said it’s over sending a single fax to a company in Pope County, Ark. Gene Kalsky was recently...more

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Out of the Frying Pan?: Eighth Circuit Agrees that TCPA Violation Did not Cause Article III Harm But Reverses Dismissal in Favor...

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A few weeks back Consumer Class Action “Titan” Jay Edelson joined us on the Ramble podcast and predicted that TCPA class actions arising in state court that are removed to federal court and later challenged on Article III...more

Burr & Forman

Eighth Circuit Holds Deficient Fax Opt-Out Notice Does Create Case or Controversy

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St. Louis Heart Center, Inc. v. Nomax, Inc., No. 19-1794, 2018 WL 3719694 (8th Cir. Aug. 6, 2018) - Plaintiff filed a class action lawsuit in state court, alleging Defendant sent it 12 fax advertisements without including...more

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Hidden Gem: Did the Ninth Circuit Just Tip its Hand in a Junk Fax Case on the Validity of the FCC’s Predictive Dialer Rulings...

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Call it a silver lining, but the Ninth Circuit just telegraphed a bit of what we might see in the big Marks v. Crunch appeal in what was otherwise a not-so-great opinion reversing the denial of class certification in a...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

TCPA Tracker-May 2017

Recent News - Class Action Plaintiffs Seek En Banc Review of D.C. Circuit Fax Advertisement Decision - On April 28, 2017, the class action plaintiff petitioners in Bais Yaakov of Spring Valley et.al. v. FCC (No....more

Goodwin

D.C. Circuit: TCPA Does Not Empower FCC to Mandate Opt-Out Notices in Solicited Faxes

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On March 31, 2017, the D.C. Circuit held in Bais Yaakov of Spring Valley v. FCC that, based on a plain reading of the TCPA, the FCC does not have the authority to mandate that senders of solicited fax advertisements include...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

SPECIAL ALERT: D.C. Circuit Invalidates FCC's Solicited Fax Rule

In a significant victory for TCPA junk fax defendants, a split panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit invalidated the Federal Communication Commission's Solicited Fax Rule. The Solicited Fax...more

BakerHostetler

D.C. Circuit May Have Finally Killed TCPA Class Actions Over Solicited Faxes Without Opt-Out Notices!

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On Friday, in a split decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit entered its long-awaited ruling in Yaakov v. Federal Communications Commission, holding that “the FCC’s 2006 Solicited...more

Carlton Fields

District Courts Find Impermissible “Fail-Safe” Class Definitions But Deny Motions to Strike Class Allegations

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Two recent decisions from the Eastern District of Illinois involving the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), decided a day apart, provided valuable insight as how this court will respond to motions to strike class...more

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Sending Fax Advertisements that Comply with the TCPA and FCC Opt-Out Notice Requirements

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) clarified on October 30, 2014, that, pursuant to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), senders of fax advertisements must comply with specific FCC opt-out notice...more

Carlton Fields

The TCPA: Deep Dive: Details, Class Actions, Regulations, and Defense Strategies

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In Part One of our complimentary, two-part webinar on the TCPA, we covered the basics. Join us for the second hour-long segment, as we get into the weeds of the TCPA. Part Two will cover: Exemptions/Details · What is an...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

TCPA Connect - December 2014

Burger King Settles TCPA Suit for Whopping $8.5M - Letting the class have it their way, Burger King reached an $8.5 million deal to settle a Telephone Consumer Protection Act suit over fax advertisements....more

Burr & Forman

Michigan District Court Holds State Prohibition On Class Actions Does Not Preclude TCPA Class In Federal Court

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Pending before the court was Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff’s TCPA claim contending Defendant sent unsolicited faxes in violation of the law. Also pending before the court was Defendant’s Motion to Strike class...more

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