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New Mexico Federal Court Denies Summary Judgment on Majority of Claims Brought Under the TCPA Over Telemarketing Calls

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Recently, a U.S. District Court in the District of New Mexico denied a defendant’s motion for summary judgment on Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) claims for telemarketing calls, finding genuine questions of fact...more

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Telemarketers Ask: What Is an Oklahoma Automated System?

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On November 1, 2022, Oklahoma’s Telephone Solicitation Act (“OTSA”) took effect. State telemarketing laws, such as the OTSA, have been coined Mini-TCPAs because they are, in large part, the state equivalents of the TCPA. The...more

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Year in Review: 2023 TCPA Litigation

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This post is part of a series of articles we are doing on 2023 data protection litigation trends. The Telephone Communications Privacy Act (TCPA) has always been a hotbed for privacy litigation, especially given the...more

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Mini in name only: state “Mini-TCPAs” carry a big bite and present potential oversized risks

The list of states with new or amended telemarketing statutes, sometimes known as “mini-TCPAs,” is growing. A flurry of state legislative activity has created a patchwork of often-conflicting laws that companies must navigate...more

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Amendments and Expansions to Washington State Mini-TCPA

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On April 20, Washington state Governor Jay Inslee signed HB 1051 which amended the state’s Mini-TCPA by expanding the scope, creating a new section, and prescribing increased penalties. The new bill will take effect July 23,...more

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FTSA Does Not Apply to Calls Selling Services to Businesses

The Middle District of Florida partially rejected a plaintiff’s motion for entry of final default judgment in Brown v. Care Front Funding, No. 8:22-cv-02408-VMC-JSS, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 60879 (M.D. Fla. Apr. 6, 2023),...more

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North Carolina Judge Says Cell Phones Not Subject to Federal Do-Not-Call Protections

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Last week, a magistrate judge in U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina dismissed a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) lawsuit brought by a plaintiff who claimed calls made by an insurance lead...more

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FTSA Dismissal Decisions Update: One Win, One New Loss

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​​​​​​​Last week, courts issued two new Florida Telephone Solicitation Act (FTSA) decisions. We’ve been covering the sprawl of FTSA cases filed since the statute was amended to allow for a private cause of action in July...more

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Florida’s Telephone Solicitation Act Survives First Constitutional Challenge

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Since becoming law in July 2021, Florida’s Telephone Solicitation Act (FTSA), Fla. Stat. § 501.059(8)(a), has been a favorite of plaintiffs’ lawyers seeking to take advantage of its ambiguous restrictions on certain sales...more

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Frequent TCPA flyer is grounded: Federal judge denies class certification due to representative’s deceptive practices

A federal district court judge refused to certify a class led by a serial plaintiff who prolonged unsolicited calls in order to create a cause of action under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The decision is a...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

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Class Action Quarterly Update: 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

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CF on Cyber: An Update on the Changes to the Florida Telemarketing Act

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On June 29, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law a bill enacting substantial changes to the Florida Telemarketing Act, which are effective July 1, 2021. In this podcast, Carlton Fields shareholders Aaron Weiss and Charles...more

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Florida “Mini-TCPA” Signed Into Law, Impacts Autodialed Telemarketing Calls and Text Messages

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It is official: effective July 1, 2021, Florida is set to amend its existing telemarketing laws to add significant teeth, via SB 1120. The statutory amendments of SB 1120 greatly expand liability for marketing calls and text...more

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Amendment to Florida Law May Create “Mini-TCPA” and Impose Heightened Restrictions on Businesses

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Litigants spent years fighting over the definition of an Automatic Telephone Dialing System (“ATDS”) under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”). That fight culminated in this year’s big ATDS defense win in the...more

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U.S. Supreme Court to Address Major TCPA Issue Next Term, Resolving Circuit Split on Autodialer Standard

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Summer in Washington, D.C., is usually a quiet time. D.C.'s summer of 2020 has been anything but quiet, to put it mildly. While there are several existential pulls on our attention this season, we should still take a moment...more

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Deference or preference – looking ahead at the impact of the US Supreme Court’s indecision on questions of agency authority

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) is one of the most frequently litigated statutes, spurring individual, and more often, national class action litigation. The pace at which new TCPA suits are filed is not slowing,...more

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Courts Contemplate Companies' Ability to Restrict Means of Revoking TCPA Consent

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The Telephone Consumer Protection Act is notorious. It establishes rigorous consent standards to use an autodialer or a prerecorded message. It gives consumers a private right of action. It imposes ruinous statutory damages....more

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TCPAland Disaster In the Making!: New Bi-Partisan TRACED Act Hopes to Put the TCPA On Steroids to Stop Robocalls– Here’s Why...

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I make a point to never post on the weekends. But this is a huge deal. And although it is a beautiful autumn afternoon outside, we need to talk TCPAland. Congress just proposed a bill to attack robocalls by leveraging the...more

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Court Finds Spokeo Closes Door on TCPA Claim

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A federal district judge has paved the way to a successful defense for Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) claims on standing grounds post-Spokeo. In Romero v. Department Stores National Bank, et al., No. 15-CV-193 (S.D....more

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