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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
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently weighed in on treble damages in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) dispute involving junk faxes. True Health Chiropractic sued McKesson Corp. for violating the...more
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
Enacted in 1991 to stem the tide of telemarketing calls, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) restricts “the making of telemarketing calls and the use of automatic telephone dialing systems and artificial or...more
New communications technologies are being adopted at a rapid pace by industry. This has led to the emergence of legal questions over whether this new technology is regulated by the TCPA. One such question, which has seen...more
One of the biggest problems with the TCPA is how quickly a single call or text message can become the catalyst of a massive, and expensive nationwide class action creating significant exposure to any business caught in its...more
On November 15, the Eleventh Circuit decided Cordoba v. DirecTV, LLC, further exploring the issue of when class actions achieve Article III standing. The plaintiffs alleged that DirecTV and the company with which it...more
Consent is the most powerful weapon companies have against TCPA liability, and a recent Eleventh Circuit opinion illustrates how. In Gorss Motels, Inc. v. Safemark Systems, L.P., the Eleventh Circuit affirmed summary judgment...more
The District of Oregon recently denied a motion for treble damages following a jury verdict finding that defendant made over 1.8 million advertising calls to the named plaintiff and other members of a certified class....more
Outside of the fax context, the chances of certifying a TCPA case have turned almost exclusively on whether class member phone numbers all derived from a “single source” or from multiple different sources. This fact seems to...more
The TCPA continues to generate significant case law nationwide. Since our last published update on June 5, 2018, there have been several significant decisions that all TCPA defense practitioners should be aware of. As always,...more
Call it a silver lining, but the Ninth Circuit just telegraphed a bit of what we might see in the big Marks v. Crunch appeal in what was otherwise a not-so-great opinion reversing the denial of class certification in a...more
In Scoma Chiropractic, P.A. v. Dental Equities, LLC, MasterCard International, Inc., et al., Judge Steele stayed a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) fax class action against MasterCard and others where statutory...more
Have the GOP’s Hopes for Enacting the Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act Been Dashed? – Passed in March 2017 by the U.S. House of Representatives, the Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2017, H.R. 985, has...more
From the standpoint of class action practice, 2017 was as important for what did not happen as for what did. Here are some of the highlights and lowlights of the 2017 class action scorecard, with a look forward to how the...more
Lacking List of Recipients, Sixth Circuit Denies Class Certification - Finding that the question of consent in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class action requires an individualized inquiry and without a list...more
As reported in our recent TCPA Connect, on May 16 the United States Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated ruling in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins. The High Court ruled that a plaintiff must show a "concrete" injury-in-fact to...more
Manatt Defeats Motion for Class Certification in TCPA Complaint Against Network Telephone Services - A team of Manatt litigators secured a major victory for Network Telephone Services, Inc., on Jan. 12, 2016, in the U.S....more
After FCC Citation for TCPA Violations, Lyft Changes Terms of Service - Less than a week after the Federal Communications Commission cited Lyft for violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by requiring customers...more
In a case that began as a putative class action, the Seventh Circuit held that a Rule 68 offer of complete relief does not render litigation moot. Plaintiff in Chapman v. First Index filed a “junk-fax” suit pursuant to the...more
The District Court for the Southern District of California certified a consumer class asserting violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) by defendant Bennett Law, PLLC. Plaintiff alleged that she received...more