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Continuing the fallout from the now over-one-year-old decision in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit ruled that the U.S. Constitution displaced the...more
The Sixth Circuit recently issued a significant ruling in a closely watched TCPA proceeding. The Sixth Circuit ruled that the TCPA’s automated call provisions could be enforced against businesses in connection with calls...more
Takeaway: In Lindenbaum v. Realgy, LLC, --- F.4th ----, 20-4252, 2021 WL 4097320 (6th Cir. Sept. 9, 2021), the Sixth Circuit rejected the defendant’s argument that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) had been...more
Last week, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas concluded that plaintiffs can bring claims for violations of 47 U.S.C. § 227(b) that arose while the government-debt exception (“GDE”) to that provision...more
The Eastern District of Texas recently dismissed a plaintiff’s TCPA claim in Cunningham v. Matrix Financial Services, LLC, No. 4:29-cv-896 (E.D. Tex. Mar. 31, 2021) for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. This decision...more
The federal government has waded into a debate on the constitutionality of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), an issue being litigated in the wake of the Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC)...more
Recently, the Eastern District of Missouri added to the split among courts deciding whether they can hear TCPA claims alleging robocall violations that occurred when the now-invalidated government debt exception was part of...more
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) is always the subject of litigation. The United States Supreme Court recently ruled that the government debt exception, which was added to the statute in 2015, was...more
Confusion continues amongst federal district courts in the wake of Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc. (“AAPC”), 140 S. Ct. 2335 (2020), the Supreme Court decision that held the TCPA’s government-debt...more
In July of 2020, the Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated decision in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc., 140 S. Ct. 2335 (2020), known ever since as the AAPC decision. The Supreme Court set...more
In the aftermath of Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc.—the Supreme Court decision from July that held the TCPA’s government-debt exception to be an unconstitutional content-based restriction on...more
On July 6, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, 140 S. Ct. 2335 (2020), holding that the government-backed debt exception to the Telephone Consumer...more
On July 6, the Supreme Court issued a long-awaited decision in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants addressing whether a provision of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”)—which generally prohibits...more
The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants held the government-debt exception of the TCPA unconstitutional under the First Amendment’s Free Speech Clause. This means that...more
The Supreme Court is showing interest in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), which is designed to control certain unwanted calls, and which over the last decade has been a favored tool of the plaintiffs’ bar to...more
On July 6, 2020, the United States Supreme Court issued its ruling in Barr v. American Ass’n of Political Consultants, a case in which the plaintiffs challenged a government-debt collection exception to the Telephone Consumer...more
In a much-anticipated Supreme Court decision, Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, sure to impact the future of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), the Court addressed the issue of whether the...more
Since 1991 the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, or TCPA, has regulated robocalls, which are loosely defined as calls or texts using automatic telephone dialing systems (a/k/a an “autodialer”). In 2015, Congress excluded...more
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA") has been the subject of significant class and consumer litigation risk exposure for many industries, including financial institutions. In a July 6 ruling, the United States...more
Takeaway: In Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc, No. 19-631, 2020 WL 3633780 (U.S. July 6, 2020), the Supreme Court invalidated the exception for calls made for the purpose of collecting government...more
Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc., Case No. 19–631 (2020). The federal government cannot exempt itself from the anti-robocall provisions of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, 47 U. S. C....more
In a widely anticipated decision in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, the US Supreme Court determined that an exception to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) that allowed robocalls to mobile...more
Welcome! Welcome to the new format of All Consuming . We listened to the feedback. A newsletter filled with long articles gives the detailed information some are looking for but becomes another thing that others have to...more
On July 6, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants Inc. The court declined to invalidate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's automated calls to cellphones...more
On June 6, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc., et al., settling an issue that has lingered over litigation under the Telephone Consumer Protection...more