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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.

District Court Holds that Under Barr v. AAPC it Lacked Subject Matter Jurisdiction Over All TCPA Claims for Calls Made Prior to...

Womble Bond Dickinson on 10/5/2020

In Stacy Creasy, et al. v. Charter Communications, Inc., No. CV 20-1199, 2020 WL 5761117 (E.D. La. Sept. 28, 2020) (Creasy), a putative class action, the plaintiffs accused defendant Charter Communications, Inc. of repeatedly...more

The Fourth Circuit Strikes TCPA’s Government Debt Collection Exception

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck on 4/29/2019

Late last month, we warned that pending litigation in the Fourth and Ninth Circuits seeking to have the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) declared unconstitutional based on the statutory government debt collection...more

Fourth Circuit Severs 2015 Government-Backed Debt Exemption From TCPA Based on First Amendment Challenge

Womble Bond Dickinson on 4/26/2019

The TCPA was the patient on the operating table in the Fourth Circuit’s opinion regarding the constitutionality of the TCPA issued today in American Association of Political Consultants, Inc., et al v. FCC, No. 18-1588 (4th...more

Government Benefit: Navient Wins Summary Judgment Based on Finding That Calls to Collect Government-Backed Debt are Exempted Under...

Womble Bond Dickinson on 12/3/2018

A great decision for Navient Solutions came down yesterday out of the Northern District of Alabama in Green v. Solutions, No. 1:17-CV-1453-VEH, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 201906 (N.D. Ala. Nov. 29, 2018). Navient Solutions had its...more

Rock On!: Second Court Finds that BBA Amendment Exempting Government-Backed Debt Affords Complete Defense Despite FCC’s Failure to...

Womble Bond Dickinson on 10/3/2018

Quick hitter for you TCPAland. Yesterday the court in Sanford v. Navient Solutions, LLC, Case No. 1:17-cv-4356, 2018 WL 4699890 (S.D. Ind. Oct. 1, 2018) became the second court in the nation to hold that the 2015 Balanced...more

TCPA Connect - August 2016

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 8/16/2016

FCC Issues Report and Order on Budget Act Exemptions - On August 11, 2016, the Federal Communications Commission issued a Report and Order implementing Section 301 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, which amended the...more

The FCC’s 2016 BBA Implementing Ruling Digested (Volume I): The 10 Things You NEED to Know Before Making Calls to Collect on...

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 8/16/2016

On August 11, 2016 the FCC issued its long-awaited ruling implementing the 2016 Bi-Partison Balanced Budget Act (“BBA”) Amendment that carved out collection calls on government-backed debt from TCPA coverage. In re Rules &...more

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