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Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

FCC Rules on Revocation and 1:1 Consent to come into effect in early 2025

On October 11, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced an effective date of April 11, 2025, for the new Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) rules on the revocation of consent. Companies that call or...more

Klein Moynihan Turco LLP

Court Rules TCPA Consent Cannot be Transferred

On September 19, 2024, Judge Lorna G. Schofield, District Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, issued an informative TCPA consent-related decision in Watson v. Manhattan Luxury...more

Klein Moynihan Turco LLP

TCPA Case Filings on the Rise!

Recently, a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) case was filed against Sunflora, Inc. (“Sunflora”) in the Middle District of Florida for allegedly violating the prerecorded voice provisions of both the TCPA and Florida...more

Klein Moynihan Turco LLP

Be Aggressive in Defending TCPA Lawsuits!

Earlier this summer, in Frank v. Receivables Performance Management, LLC (“RPM”), a judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey issued a useful decision for defendants, dismissing most of the...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Ninth Circuit Finds That One Text Can Cause Concrete Harm, Remands for Decision Regarding Whether Minors Can Consent

Ever since the Supreme Court confirmed that the TCPA’s autodialer restrictions apply only to devices that generate numbers randomly or sequentially, the plaintiffs’ bar has been digging deep for new theories of liability to...more

Cozen O'Connor

Talk to the Machine! AKA Revoking TCPA Consent by “Talking” to a Pre-Recorded Message

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Can a TCPA plaintiff revoke consent to be contacted by “talking” to a pre-recorded message? Probably not. But this is the theory advanced by serial pro se litigant Na’eem Betz in Betz v. Synchrony Bank, currently pending in...more

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Unanimous Supreme Court Decision Narrows the Scope of the TCPA

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An April Supreme Court ruling significantly reduced the scope of communications platforms that could be considered autodialers subject to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The decision in Facebook, Inc. v....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Texting Post-Duguid: Can Consent Practices Change?

Providing business teams with advice for sending text messages can be nothing short of frustrating. For businesses used to sending email marketing, the laws for texting are unexpected. Unlike the CAN-SPAM Act, TCPA requires...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Court Enters Summary Judgment Against Plaintiff, Finds No Triable Issues Regarding Revocation of Consent

The Eastern District of California recently entered summary judgment against a plaintiff because it found that the plaintiff failed to revoke his consent to receive auto-dialed calls on his cell phone. Wright v. USAA Savings...more

Vedder Price

TCPA Turnstile: As we wait for a ruling in Barr, new case law abounds (TCPA Case Update Vol. 12)

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Undoubtedly, the biggest TCPA development in the last month was the recent Supreme Court oral argument in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants Inc., Case No. 19-631, which has the potential to upend TCPA...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Redial: 2019 TCPA Year-in-Review - Analysis of critical issues and trends in TCPA compliance and litigation

Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to send you its sixth annual REDIAL: 2019 TCPA YEAR-IN-REVIEW – ANALYSIS OF CRITICAL ISSUES AND TRENDS IN TCPA COMPLIANCE AND LITIGATION. Inside this digital edition, you will find our in-depth...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Central District of California Grants Motion for Summary Judgment After Finding That Plaintiff Failed to Revoke Prior Express...

The Central District of California recently granted summary judgment to the defendant on a TCPA claim in Mendoza v. Allied Interstate LLC, SACV 17-885 JVS (KESx), 2019 WL 5616961 (C.D. Cal. Oct. 22, 2019), finding that the...more

Burr & Forman

Another Court Holds That Bargained-For Consent To Be Called Cannot Be Unilaterally Revoked In TCPA Case

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Harris v. Navient Solutions, LLC, No. 3:15-cv-546, 2018 WL 3748155 (D. Conn. Aug. 7, 2018) - Plaintiff signed promissory notes to secure student loans in which she provided her telephone number, agreed to update Defendant...more

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TCPA Case Law Update (Vol. 2)

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In case there was any doubt that TCPA cases continue to flood federal court dockets nationwide, we recently reviewed the nearly 300 decisions referencing the TCPA that have been published since mid-December. Some of them have...more

Balch & Bingham LLP

That’s No Autodialer: D.C. Circuit Unwinds 2015 FCC TCPA Ruling

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This article addresses the Court’s reversal of over a decade of confusion regarding autodialers. The TCPA defines an autodialer (automatic telephone dialing system, or ATDS) as “equipment which has the capacity (a) to store...more

Balch & Bingham LLP

Revoking Contractual Consent is Different: D.C. Circuit Unwinds 2015 FCC TCPA Ruling

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Here, we address one significant component of the decision: the D.C. Circuit’s confirmation that consumers may revoke consent to call by any reasonable means but with the qualification that parties may be able to contract...more

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No Safe Harbor for Reassigned Numbers: D.C. Circuit Unwinds 2015 FCC TCPA Ruling

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Here, we examine the D.C. Circuit’s reversal of not simply the one-call safe harbor for reassigned numbers imposed by the FCC’s 2015 TCPA ruling but also the Commission’s treatment of reassigned numbers as a whole. ...more

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D.C. Circuit Unwinds 2015 FCC TCPA Ruling: An Overview

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In a watershed case, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit) unwound key components of the controversial 2015 ruling by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission)...more

McGuireWoods LLP

D.C. Circuit Issues Long-Awaited Decision on FCC’s 2015 TCPA Order

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Nearly two and a half years following the appeal of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) July 2015 Order, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued a ruling on March 16, 2018. On appeal, over a...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

TCPA Tracker-Special Update-March 2018

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued its long-awaited decision reviewing the FCC’s 2015 TCPA Declaratory Ruling and Order. In the case of ACA International v. FCC, Case No. 15-1211, the Court, in a 3-0...more

Ruder Ware

Autodialing and Pre-Recorded Messages: the TCPA’s Trap for Unwary Lenders and Debt Collectors

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In February 2015, a federal judge approved a $75 million Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) class settlement involving Capital One and three debt collectors.[1] The plaintiffs (debtors) alleged that Capital One and...more

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