Joshua Threadcraft on Text Messages

The Seventh Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment on TCPA Claim, Holding Communications Were Not Telephone Solicitations

Hulce v. Zipongo, Inc., No. 24-1623, 2025 WL 829603 (7th Cir. March 17, 2025) - Defendant, a for-profit company that provides nutritional consultation to individuals, contracted with a healthcare plan to provide its...more

3/21/2025 / Class Action , Do Not Call List , Solicitation , Summary Judgment , TCPA , Telecommunications , Telemarketing , Text Messages

Ninth Circuit Holds Text Messages Are Not Prerecorded Calls

Trim v Reward Zone USA LLC, No. 22-55517, 2023 WL 5025264 (9th Cir. August 8, 2023) - Plaintiff filed a putative class action, contending, in part, that three marketing text messages she received utilized prerecorded voices,...more

8/10/2023 / ATDS , Auto-Dialed Calls , Corporate Counsel , Putative Class Actions , Statutory Interpretation , Statutory Violations , TCPA , Telecommunications , Text Messages

Florida Enacts Significant Amendment to Telephone Solicitation Act

In July, 2021, the Florida Telephone Solicitation Act, F.S.A. § 501.059 (“FTSA”), was amended to create a private right of action for those receiving marketing calls and text messages, giving rise to an onslaught of...more

5/26/2023 / Auto-Dialed Calls , Consumer Privacy Rights , Florida , New Legislation , Prior Express Consent , Regulatory Reform , Telecommunications , Text Messages

Eleventh Circuit Vacates TCPA Class Settlement for Lack of Standing, Suggesting Reconsideration of Glasser v. Hilton Grand...

Drazen v. GoDaddy.com, LLC, No. 21-10199 (11th Cir. July 27, 2022) Plaintiffs’ Claims and Allegations - Plaintiff’s claims, and those advanced in two separately filed class action lawsuits alleging violation of the...more

7/28/2022 / Article III , Class Action , Marketing , Regulatory Violations , Settlement Agreements , Standing , TCPA , Text Messages

Arizona District Court Stays TCPA Case Pending Ruling By Supreme Court in Barr v. AAPC

Whittaker v All Reverse Mortgage Inc.. No. CV 20-08016-PCT-DLR, 2020 WL 28229785 (D. Ariz. May 29, 2020) - Plaintiff filed a putative class action, alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, 47 U.S.C. §...more

6/2/2020 / ATDS , Auto-Dialed Calls , Constitutional Challenges , Putative Class Actions , Reverse Mortgages , Stays , TCPA , Telecommunications , Text Messages

Florida District Court Grants Summary Judgment Holding Plaintiff Failed To Prove ATDS Used To Send Texts

Gaza v. Auto Glass America, LLC, No. 8:17-cv-1811-T-27AEP, 2018 WL 5775915 (M.D. Fla. Nov. 2, 2018) - Plaintiff alleged that he received five text messages, asserting claims for violation of the TCPA. Defendant moved for...more

11/6/2018 / ATDS , Auto-Dialed Calls , Summary Judgment , TCPA , Text Messages

ACA International Heavily Influences District Court’s Holding Defendant Did Not Use ATDS

Herrick v. GoDaddy.com, LLC, No. CV 16-00254-PHX-DJH, 2018 WL 2229131 (D. Ariz. May 14, 2018) - Background - In 2015, Defendant contracted with a third-party web-based software application company called 3Seventy to...more

5/22/2018 / ATDS , Auto-Dialed Calls , GoDaddy.com , Marketing , Putative Class Actions , Telecommunications , Text Messages

New Jersey Court Holds Text Revocation Must Follow Directions

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

2/1/2018 / Auto-Dialed Calls , Class Action , Federal Rule 12(b)(6) , Kohls , Prior Express Consent , Retailers , Revocation , TCPA , Telemarketing , Text Messages

Georgia District Court Dismisses TCPA Claim Due To Human Intervention

Colette Jenkins v. MGage, LLC, No. 1:14-cv-2791-WSD (N.D. Ga. Aug. 12, 2016) - Plaintiff filed this TCPA lawsuit after receiving 150 text messages over an approximately one year period during which she tried to stop...more

8/18/2016 / ATDS , Auto-Dialed Calls , Corporate Counsel , Robocalling , Summary Judgment , TCPA , Telecommunications , Text Messages

FCC Holds Educators and Utilities Making Certain Robo Calls Do Not Violate The TCPA

On August 4, 2016, the FCC released a Declaratory Ruling confirming that schools and utilities making robo calls do not violate the TCPA under certain circumstances. The Ruling, addressed Petitions filed by Blackboard, Inc....more

8/17/2016 / ATDS , Auto-Dialed Calls , Declaratory Judgments , Educational Institutions , Emergency Alerts , FCC , Mobile Devices , Prior Express Consent , Robocalling , TCPA , Telecommunications , Text Messages , Utilities Sector

FCC Consumer Advisory Committee Recommends Final Rule Pursuant to Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 With Consumer Protections

On June 10, 2016, the FCC Consumer Advisory Committee recommended promulgation of a Final Rule pursuant to the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, containing the following consumer protections: Calls pursuant to the exception...more

6/16/2016 / Bipartisan Budget , Debt Collection , FCC , FDCPA , Final Rules , Financial Institutions , Right to Privacy , Telecommunications , Text Messages

Ninth Circuit Affirms Denial of TCPA Class Due To “Significant Uncommon Questions” And Ascertainability Issues

Gannon v. Network Telephone Services, Inc., No. 13-56813 (9th Cir. Jan. 12, 2016) In a 3 paragraph unpublished opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the trial court’s denial of plaintiff’s...more

2/10/2016 / Ascertainable Class , Class Certification , FRCP 23(b)(3) , TCPA , Text Messages

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