On April 7, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) announced that it would delay portions of a significant new rule pertaining to the revocation of consumer consent under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act...more
On April 4, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) revealed that it will not support a rehearing of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) 1:1 consent requirement for robocalls/texts (“1:1 Consent Rule”)...more
4/9/2025
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The legal world has been abuzz with news of the Federal Communications Commission's One-to-One Consent Rule, which was vacated by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals last month. However, an additional new FCC rule warrants...more
On March 12, 2025, Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) chair, Brendan Carr, opened a new docket titled In Re: Delete, Delete, Delete (the “Notice”), asking for the public’s help in identifying “unnecessary” FCC rules,...more
Two major developments hit the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) landscape on January 24, 2025, just three days before the new Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC”) new rule requiring telemarketers to obtain...more
On January 27, 2025, the new Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) rule requiring telemarketers to obtain one-to-one consent for robocalls/texts is scheduled to go into effect. Expanding on the Telephone Consumer...more
1/22/2025
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Text Messages
Just a few months after the United States Supreme Court voted 6-3 to overturn the long-standing and widely applied legal precedent known as “Chevron deference,” it has agreed to hear a case that could entirely shift the...more
12/18/2024
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Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo ,
McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates Inc v McKesson Corporation ,
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Unsolicited Faxes
On February 15, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) adopted the Draft Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“Report and Order”) that it released last month under the Telephone Consumer...more
A fax is a fax is a fax… or is it? In a recent ruling in the long-running TCPA junk fax case Career Counseling, Inc. v. AmeriFactors Financial Group, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the statute’s prohibition...more
2/7/2024
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Unsolicited Faxes
Does your business use text message marketing, telemarketing or faxing? If so, you may be exposing yourself to multi-million dollar liability under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (“TCPA”), which restricts...more