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Telephone Consumer Protection Act Discovery

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act is a United States federal statute enacted in 1991 to protect consumers from unsolicited telephone marketing calls.  
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ATDS Status Turns on Capability of Dialing Equipment, Not Actual Use, Third Circuit Holds—But Liability Turns on Actual Use, Not...

Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit concluded that the TCPA’s definition of “automatic telephone dialing system” (or “ATDS”) includes all dialing equipment with the present ability to generate random or...more

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Learning from the Past to Combat the “Entrepreneurial Model” of Class Actions

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The meteoric rise in class actions over the past decade has been well-documented. Nowadays even mac & cheese is under attack, with two proposed nationwide class actions filed this month alone claiming labels such as “The...more

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Courts Becoming More Inclined to Grant Stays Pending Outcome in Facebook v. Duguid

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On December 8, 2020, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Facebook v. Duguid on the issue of the definition of an automatic telephone dialing system (“ATDS”) under the TCPA. Prior to oral argument, rulings on motions to...more

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Real Property, Financial Services, & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending May 1, 2020

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Real Property Update - Foreclosure / Note: Trial court could not challenge authenticity of note as copy where borrower had not pleaded defenses and lender was not afforded advanced notice of dispositive issue to be tried -...more

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Real Property, Financial Services, & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending January 17, 2020

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Real Property Update - Condition Precedent / Summary Judgment: Master association was not an owner of the condominium association and lacked standing to defend litigation based upon condominium association’s alleged...more

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Holiday Cheer: Court Denies Certification in TCPA Wrong Number Class Action And Shows Just Why Wrong Number Class Actions Should...

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Just a few days ago, Judge William F. Jung of the Middle District of Florida denied certification in a wrong-number TCPA class action, and tore to shreds the most common methodologies proposed by plaintiffs to ascertain wrong...more

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Real Property, Financial Services, & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending November 16, 2018

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Real Property Update - Derivative v. Direct Action / Standing: individual member of LLC not entitled to sue title company for breach of fiduciary duty because right to sue belonged to LLC, where LLC suffered the direct...more

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Class Discovery Nightmare: Court Orders Defendant to Turn Itself Inside Out to Provide Account-Level Data in TCPA Class Action

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Hi everyone! Well, I’m sure you’ve heard the good news from the Czar by now, and we’re all very excited here at TCPAland. Boy what a celebration I had when I found out. I put the kids the bed, had a glass of champs with my...more

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TCPA Classes Failing Failsafe Rule: Why Courts Should Start Taking the Rule Against Failsafe Classes A Little More Seriously at...

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TCPA cases often involve brightly-lit esoteric legal issues that attract law nerd moths like me from all corners. Last week I explored one way intervention, and I had so much fun that this week I’d like to ruminate on the...more

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Middle District of Florida Court Finds Predictive Dialers Not Subject to TCPA Unless They Randomly or Sequentially Generate...

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Well Ocwen is certainly on a roll. Just weeks after delivering a stellar win on ATDS issues in Keyes, the feisty servicer is at it again, delivering TCPAland its first ATDS ruling out of the state of Florida following ACA...more

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Nothing Common About This Ruling: Court Finds Lack of Even a Threshold Common Issue in TCPA Certification Bid

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Class actions under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) are rarely, if ever, certified in the debt collection context outside of highly-unique circumstances. So today’s decision in Frederick Luster v. Green Tree...more

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Double Whammy!: Court in Eastern District of Michigan Excludes Plaintiff’s Expert Report, Then Grants Summary Judgment on TCPA...

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It’s hard to keep track of developments on ATDS functionality these days, as week-by-week we’ve had courts across the country coming out on different sides of this raging debate. This week is no different, and we have a nice...more

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Making them Work For It: Court Dismisses TCPA Case for Lack of Factual Allegations Regarding ATDS Usage

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Quick tip: While the focus these days in TCPAland is on the definition of ATDS–and quite properly so— it should not be forgotten that threadbare recitals of ATDS usage at the pleadings stage are categorically improper....more

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Admission Binding: Court Refuses to Allow TCPA Plaintiff to Change his Consent Tale at Trial

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...Requests for Admissions are my favorite (quasi-) discovery device. Like Dr. Strange’s spell protecting the time stone in Infinity War–they are easy to cast but– once admitted– they can prove quite unbreakable....more

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Seventh Circuit Reverses Grant of Summary Judgment as Premature

Reversing dismissal of a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class action, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit ruled that a plaintiff should have been afforded the opportunity to conduct discovery before his claim...more

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Out Of Proportion: Court Denies Discovery Requests In Putative TCPA Class Action Due Burden On Defendant

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This putative Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class action arose from alleged marketing calls by Quicken Loans (Quicken) to potential mortgage customers. After the magistrate judge granted the plaintiff’s motion to...more

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District Court Overrules Magistrate’s Order Compelling Prior Complaint Information and Related Data in TCPA Class Action

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Quicken Loans scored a victory earlier this week when Judge Steven D. Merryday sustained its objection to a magistrate judge’s order compelling production of every shred of documentation in any form about every do-not-call...more

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Court Rejects Plaintiff’s Efforts to Expand Discovery Beyond Fax

Prohibiting the plaintiff from broader discovery based on “mere speculation” about the existence of other fax advertisements, a Pennsylvania federal court limited discovery in a putative TCPA class action to the fax received...more

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Should Your Consumer Arbitration Clause Be Broader?

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After a Central District of California Judge dismissed a consumer’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) case on a Motion to Compel Arbitration, companies should consider broadening their consumer arbitration provisions....more

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Third Circuit Introduces New Uncertainty While Attempting to Clarify Ascertainability Jurisprudence

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On August 16, the Third Circuit gave the plaintiff a pass for failing to pursue evidence necessary to determine whether its proposed class was ascertainable and took the opportunity to clarify that affidavits may be used, at...more

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TCPA Team Scores Win For Dorsey Client: Court Prohibits Plaintiff From Seeking Deposition Testimony on Unrelated Prior Complaints

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On May 18, 2016, Dorsey’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) team scored a major victory on behalf of one of its financial services clients when the District Court for the Middle District of Florida granted its...more

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TCPA Connect - October 2015

After FCC Citation for TCPA Violations, Lyft Changes Terms of Service - Less than a week after the Federal Communications Commission cited Lyft for violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by requiring customers...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Class Action Chronicle - Fall 2015

This is the ninth edition of The Class Action Chronicle, a quarterly publication that provides an analysis of recent class action trends, along with a summary of class certification and Class Action Fairness Act rulings...more

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Texas Anti-SLAPP Law: The Expanding Scope of the Texas Citizen’s Participation Act – Part 3

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The basics of the Texas Anti-SLAPP law In part three we are going to deep dive into a specific case that has garnered a lot of attention-Schlumberger v. Rutherford which is currently on appeal to the Houston Court of...more

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The Class Action Chronicle - Summer 2015

In This Issue: - The Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2015 - Class Certification Decisions: ..Decisions Granting Motions to Strike/Dismiss Class Claims ..Decisions Denying Motions to...more

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