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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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Supreme Court of Texas Runs at the Low Hurdle of Prima Facie Evidence in Anti-SLAPP Motion Practice

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Last week, the Supreme Court of Texas addressed the quantum of evidence required for a plaintiff to support a prima facie case and survive a motion to dismiss brought under the Texas Citizens Participation Act, Texas’s...more

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California Court Enters Summary Judgment Against Plaintiff Who Failed To Prove Vicarious Liability

A court in the Northern District of California recently granted a defense motion for summary judgment, finding that the defendants were not vicariously liable for a subcontractor’s supposed TCPA violations because the record...more

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Applying Facebook, Court Tosses Suit Over ATDS Allegations

Applying the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Facebook v. Duguid, a North Carolina federal court dismissed a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) suit, finding that the plaintiff failed to sufficiently allege the...more

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Sixth Circuit Holds Non-Expert Evidence Need Not Be Admissible to Support Class Certification, but Approves Stringent Claim...

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At Class Certification Stage, Non-Expert Evidence Must Be Reliable, but Not Necessarily Admissible: As the Supreme Court explained 40 years ago in General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. Falcon, 457 U.S. 147, 161 (1982),...more

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Court Finds Plaintiff’s ATDS Evidence Insufficient and Grants Summary Judgment for Defendant

The Southern District of Florida recently granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment on certain aspects of a plaintiff’s TCPA claim because plaintiff could not establish that defendant used an ATDS to call her cell...more

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Florida U.S. District Court Grants Victory for Defendant, Finds its Dialing Equipment Is Not an ATDS

In many TCPA cases, the sufficiency of a plaintiff’s allegations, particularly those concerning the defendant’s alleged use of an automatic telephone dialing system (“ATDS”), are tested at the pleadings stage through a motion...more

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TCPA Disaster: Court Finds Manual Call May Still Violate the TCPA If It Occurred On Equipment That Has the Capacity to Dial...

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As the battle over the definition of an ATDS continues throughout the nation, a District Court in Virginia just entered the fight with a dagger. In Morgan v. On Deck Capital, Case No. 3:17-CV-00045, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS...more

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Where's the Beef? Motion to Dismiss Granted Based on Emergency Exception & Extrinsic Evidence

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Last week, the District Court for the Southern District of California granted a motion to dismiss without leave to amend in a putative class action lawsuit involving the emergency exception to the TCPA. In Derrick v....more

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One Star Rating: Court Denies Uber’s Motion to Compel Arbitration after Failing to Authenticate Agreement

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A District Court in California denied Uber’s motion to arbitrate a TCPA class action claim after the ride-sharing company failed to authenticate the information from its database that allegedly confirmed the arbitration...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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Eighth Circuit Holds Deposition Testimony Shows Adequate Notice Given for TCPA Exclusion

Yesterday January 3, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that an insurer had provided adequate notice of the Distribution of Material exclusion in a renewal policy to make the exclusion enforceable in...more

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This is How It Is in TCPAland: Class Counsel Moves to Strike Defendant’s Consent Defense for Seeking One Week Extension to Redact...

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Lest anyone think TCPAland isn’t fraught with peril for unwary defendants, let me tell you a quick tale. Citibank is facing TCPA class litigation in the Northern District of California–yes the same Citibank that so...more

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Coming Up Short: Court Denies Summary Judgment on ATDS use in TCPA Class Action Due to Evidentiary Shortcomings

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A magistrate judge in the Southern District of Florida has recommended that the Defendant’s motion for summary judgment based upon ATDS use be denied. Fortunately, this isn’t a Marks effect case. In fact, the legal definition...more

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Big TCPA Day Continues: Ninth Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment in Favor of Defendant Where Plaintiff’s Revocation Testimony...

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Probably the single most common factual scenario we see in TCPA cases is the he-says/records-say revocation suit. The Plaintiff swears that he or she revoked consent. The business–which keeps great records and has bulletproof...more

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“Merest Sophistry”: Court Denies Rule 11 Motion in TCPA Case and Actually States that Defendant Wasted the Court’s Time

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I need to share another quick TCPA procedure lesson before I get some actual work done today.  Rule 11 Motions are not vehicles to test the merits of a claim. Keep that in mind lest a judge ask you not to waste the court’s...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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Your TCPA Settlements Can’t and Won’t Be Used Against You in a Court of Law (Probably)

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TCPA Plaintiffs often utilize overly broad discovery demands in an effort to bludgeon a caller into settling an otherwise meritless case. One of the most common tactics is serving boilerplate demands seeking a Defendant’s...more

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Northern District of Illinois Decertifies TCPA Class Action

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On February 13, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois decertified a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) text-message class in light of new evidence of consent obtained during the...more

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Consumer Financial Services Newsletter - August 2016

Seventh Circuit Rules: Filing a Proof of Claim for Old Debt Is Okay — Circuits Split - Owens et al. v. LVNV Funding LLC et al., Nos. 15-2044, 15-2082, 15-2109 (7th Cir. Aug.10, 2016) - In Owens v. LVNV Funding LLC,...more

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