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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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MMS Text Messages That Include Links to Audio Are Not “Prerecorded Voice” Subject to TCPA Wireless Prohibition When a “Conscious...

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Following the recent Ninth Circuit decision in Trim v. Reward Zone USA LLC, No. 22-55517, 2023 WL 5025264 (9th Cir. Aug. 8, 2023), see previous post, where the court held that SMS messages that lack any audible component are...more

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FCC Releases Proposed Rule for Codifying Updates to the TCPA

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As we recently previewed, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published its Proposed Rule that would codify its updated guidance on the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The TCPA regulates calls and text...more

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FCC Publishes Robotexting Report and Order and FNPRM in the Federal Register

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On April 11, 2023, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) published a Report and Order (R&O) in the Federal Register, setting an effective date of May 11, 2023 for certain of its rules. The R&O establishes...more

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First Circuit Concludes that Hybrid Cellular-VoIP Telephone Numbers Are Subject to TCPA

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The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reversed a summary judgment granted in favor of Verizon, by concluding that a “hybrid” telephone number using both VoIP and voice wireless services must be considered “assigned to a…...more

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TCPA Compliance Curveball: First Circuit Holds That Landline Phone May Be Treated As A Cell Phone For TCPA Purposes

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In doing so, the First Circuit both expanded the scope of TCPA liability while simultaneously making compliance virtually impossible for callers. Cellular services and VOIP - The ATDS prohibition of the TCPA regulates...more

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Narrowing the scope of TCPA litigation (for now) – FCC creates reassigned number database and option to block spam text messages

According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), approximately 100,000 cell phone numbers are reassigned in this country every day, resulting in millions of wireless numbers being reassigned each year. Reassigned...more

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FCC Takes Big Robocall Action During Winter Open Meeting

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As expected we saw some big robocall news out of D.C. this morning. The FCC has made two rulings today that will impact American cell phones users in a big way. First, the FCC confirmed that text messages remain...more

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District Court of Minnesota Finds Calls to a Reassigned Number Did Not Violate the TCPA

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In Roark v. Credit One Bank, N.A., No. 16-173 (PAM/ECW), 2018 WL 5921652 (D. Minn. Nov. 13, 2018), the District Court of Minnesota found that calls to a reassigned phone number did not violate the TCPA because the caller’s...more

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Back to the Future: 1991 Congressional Hearing Shows us How Far the TCPA Has Strayed From What it was Originally Intended to...

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In Part III of TCPAland’s review of the comments submitted to the FCC, I noted that some of the consumer-side comments submitted to the FCC pointed to a 1991 Senate Subcommittee Hearing in which “predictive dialers” were...more

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D.C. Circuit Rejects FCC’s Interpretation of Automatic Telephone Dialing System Under TCPA

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As retailers continue to be sued for alleged violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), a long-awaited ruling by the D.C. Circuit on the FCC’s 2015 Declaratory Ruling and Order (“2015 Order”) may provide...more

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D.C. Circuit Rejects FCC’s TCPA Interpretation

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On March 16, 2018, the D.C. Circuit issued its long-awaited opinion on the FCC’s 2015 Declaratory Ruling and Order (“2015 Order”) interpreting various sections of the Telephone Consumer Collection Practices Act (“TCPA”). Of...more

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D.C. Circuit Calls 2015 FCC TCPA Autodialer Decision “Utterly Unreasonable”; Strikes Down Reassigned Numbers Framework

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The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued its long-awaited decision in ACA International, et al, v. FCC, a case involving multiple petitions for review of the Federal Communications...more

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D.C. Circuit Shuts Down Rite Aid’s Challenge to Expand Healthcare Exemptions under the TCPA and HIPAA

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On March 16, 2018, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued a groundbreaking decision in ACA Int’l v. FCC, No. 15-1211, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 6535 (D.C. Cir. Mar. 16, 2018) (“ACA Int’l“) that...more

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Autodialer Junction, What’s Your Function? D.C. Circuit Reverses FCC’s Internally Inconsistent Interpretations of ATDS...

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The D.C. Circuit’s reversal of the Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC” or “Commission”) pronouncements as to “the precise functions that a device must have capacity to perform for it to be considered an ATDS,” will...more

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Call connected: DC Circuit finally weighs in, rejects significant parts of the Federal Communications Commission’s 2015 TCPA order

In a long-awaited ruling, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit trimmed the expansive scope of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The appellants, in ACA International v. Federal Communications Commission...more

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D.C. Circuit Holds that FCC’s Interpretation of the Term “Capacity” is Invalid Because It Makes Nearly Every American a...

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The D.C. Circuit has rejected the FCC’s “impermissibly expansive” interpretation of what constitutes an Automatic Telephone Dialing System (“ATDS”) under the TCPA. ACA Int’l v. FCC, No. 15-1211, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 6535...more

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D.C. Circuit Issues Long-Awaited Decision in ACA Challenge to FCC TCPA Rulemaking

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On March 16, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued its long-awaited decision in ACA International v. FCC, invalidating several key pieces of the FCC’s 2015 Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)...more

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D.C. Circuit Dooms “Idiosyncratic” or “Imaginative” TCPA Revocation Efforts While Blessing Contractual Revocation Provisions in...

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Nearly a year-and-a-half after oral argument on the ACA International v. FCC petition for review of the Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC” or “Commission”) 2015 Omnibus Order (or “Omnibus”), the D.C. Circuit Court of...more

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D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Sets Aside FCC’s Definition of “Called Party” Under the TCPA—What Comes Next?

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The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) makes it unlawful to make autodialed calls without the prior express consent of the “called party.” 47 USC §227(b)(1)(A). ...more

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ATDS, WTF? The DC Circuit Dismantles the FCC’s 2015 TCPA Order

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Following the FCC’s 2015 Telephone Consumer Protection Act Omnibus Order, following ten consolidated appeals of the Order filed shortly thereafter, and following an oral argument in 2016, on March 16, 2018 the DC Circuit...more

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The D.C. Circuit Issues a Split Ruling on the FCC’s 2015 Omnibus TCPA Order

The long-awaited ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on the Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC”) 2015 Omnibus Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) order was finally released on...more

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TCPA FCC Petitions Tracker

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Kelley Drye’s Communications Practice Group presents this tracker of active Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) petitions before the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”). With the recent increase in litigation...more

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TCPA Tracker - August 2017

Recent News - FCC Imposes Potential Liability on Technology Platforms for Involvement in Unlawful Robocalls - On July 26, 2017, the FCC released the text of the Forfeiture Order adopted at the Commission’s July 2017...more

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Litigation Alert: The FCC Enforcement Bureau Advises That Text Message Senders Must Comply With the Telephone Consumer Protection...

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On November 18, 2016, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Enforcement Bureau issued an Advisory declaring that autodialed text messages, also known as robotexts, must comply with the requirements set forth in the...more

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TCPA FCC Petitions Tracker

Kelley Drye’s Communications Practice Group presents this tracker of active Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) petitions before the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”). With the recent increase in litigation...more

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