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Among the many unusual aspects of 2021 is that the same insurance company was before a federal appellate court on two separate but contemporaneous cases – one in which the insurer was asserting a lack of insurance coverage...more
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
As part of Manatt’s continuing monthly coverage of the aftermath of Facebook v. Duguid and how district courts are applying it to determine whether a calling system meets the Supreme Court’s newly clarified definition of an...more
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
We have previously written about decisions that dismissed TCPA claims because plaintiffs could not allege or prove facts establishing that the party making the offending calls was acting as an agent for the named defendant....more
The Seventh Circuit recently held in Gadelhak v. AT&T Services, Inc., 950 F.3d 458 (7th Cir. 2020) that the statutory definition of ATDS requires that a device have the capacity to randomly or sequentially generate numbers to...more
In a text message case, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida recently granted Atlantic Coast Enterprise, LLC’s (“Ace”) motion to dismiss upon finding that the plaintiff had failed to plausibly allege...more
Generally, text message platform providers are not considered the “sender” or “maker” of a text message or call unless they are so involved in placing the call as to be deemed to have “made or initiated” it themselves. The...more
The Northern District of Texas recently dismissed a TCPA claim because “the Complaint nowhere alleges that he was called or texted using an ATDS.” The Court’s opinion emphasized that simply asserting that “the text messages...more
Late last week, the Sixth Circuit held that a plaintiff in a junk fax class action alleged sufficient facts to establish that a fax – which was seemingly informational on its face – was nonetheless an “unsolicited...more
Well that didn’t take long. Yesterday the court in Keifer v. Hosopo Corp., Case No. 3:18-cv-1353, 2018 U.S. Dist. Lexis 183468 (S.D. Cal. Oct. 25, 2018) issued the first ATDS decision in the country relying on Marks. Not...more
Not long ago I would have told you that platform providers are “fine” when asked whether they could be held liable solely for the unlawful actions of customers using their products. Just like Verizon is never liable when a...more
We’re closely tracking the recent trend involving plaintiffs’ use of their lack of Article III standing as a basis to avoid federal jurisdiction. Last week we reported on a case in the Northern District of California that was...more
In Montinola v. Synchrony Bank, Civil Action No. 17-8963, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 146716 (D.N.J. Aug. 28, 2018), the District of New Jersey granted defendant’s Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss based on Plaintiff’s failure to...more
In Bailey v. CVS Pharmacy, Inc., 2018 WL 3866701 (D.N.J. Aug. 14, 2018), Plaintiff Jaclyn Bailey filed a putative class action alleging that CVS violated the TCPA by sending text messages to its customers notifying them that...more
On June 7, 2018, a Florida district court held that Plaintiff’s putative class action allegations that Defendant twice texted his cell phone number without consent using an ATDS was sufficient to state a claim under the TCPA...more
Viggiano v. Kohls Department Stores, Civ. Action No. 17-0243-BRM-TJB, (D.N.J. Nov. 27, 2017) - Plaintiff filed a class actioTexn TCPA lawsuit placing at issue automated text message allegedly sent by Defendant after...more
In Zean v. Fairview Health Services, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit recently affirmed the district court's dismissal of a putative class action complaint under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)....more
After allowing Plaintiff multiple opportunities to submit additional authority in opposition to Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss, the court dismissed his class action Complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can...more