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Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

TCPA FCC Petitions Tracker February 2019

Kelley Drye’s Communications Practice Group presents this tracker of active Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) petitions before the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”). With the recent increase in litigation...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Government Benefit: Navient Wins Summary Judgment Based on Finding That Calls to Collect Government-Backed Debt are Exempted Under...

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A great decision for Navient Solutions came down yesterday out of the Northern District of Alabama in Green v. Solutions, No. 1:17-CV-1453-VEH, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 201906 (N.D. Ala. Nov. 29, 2018). Navient Solutions had its...more

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FROM THE MAILBAG: The Czar Answers TCPAland Questions About Timing of Revocation/Recycled Number Requests, Healthcare Exemption

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NOT LEGAL ADVICE, NOT LEGAL ADVICE, NOT LEGAL ADVICE–DON’T RELY ON THIS–CONSULT AN ATTORNEY - Every once in a while we get some questions from our loyal readers. Thought I’d take a minute and provide a few answers where I...more

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TCPA FCC Petitions Tracker August 2018

Kelley Drye’s Communications Practice Group presents this tracker of active Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) petitions before the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”). With the recent increase in litigation...more

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TCPA FCC Petitions Tracker July 2018

Kelley Drye’s Communications Practice Group presents this tracker of active Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) petitions before the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”). With the recent increase in litigation...more

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TCPALand After Dark: FCC Seeks Comment on Two Obscure TCPA Petitions that Could Change Everything

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The FCC is up to something. As we’ve now thoroughly reported, the FCC is seeking public comment on the scope and architecture of the TCPA following the ACA Int’l petition. Those who listen to our podcast know that the...more

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*7 Wars: FCC Considers Key Punch Revocation in Effort to Stop Robocalls

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As we reported here recently, the FCC is seeking public comment on a number of key issues impacting the scope of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”). One issue of profound significance to be addressed by the FCC,...more

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TCPA FCC Petitions Tracker April 2018

Kelley Drye’s Communications Practice Group presents this tracker of active Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) petitions before the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”). With the recent increase in litigation...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Autodialer Junction, What’s Your Function? D.C. Circuit Reverses FCC’s Internally Inconsistent Interpretations of ATDS...

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The D.C. Circuit’s reversal of the Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC” or “Commission”) pronouncements as to “the precise functions that a device must have capacity to perform for it to be considered an ATDS,” will...more

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Appeals Court Strikes Down Key Portions of FCC’s Onerous TCPA Rulemaking

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Last week, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit issued a long-awaited decision on an omnibus challenge to the FCC’s interpretation of the TCPA. While the decision provides some relief for businesses, it does not...more

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Call connected: DC Circuit finally weighs in, rejects significant parts of the Federal Communications Commission’s 2015 TCPA order

In a long-awaited ruling, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit trimmed the expansive scope of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The appellants, in ACA International v. Federal Communications Commission...more

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D.C. Circuit Holds that FCC’s Interpretation of the Term “Capacity” is Invalid Because It Makes Nearly Every American a...

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The D.C. Circuit has rejected the FCC’s “impermissibly expansive” interpretation of what constitutes an Automatic Telephone Dialing System (“ATDS”) under the TCPA. ACA Int’l v. FCC, No. 15-1211, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 6535...more

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D.C. Circuit Court Finally Rules On FCC’s 2015 TCPA Order

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After two and a half years, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued a highly anticipated ruling reviewing the Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC” or “Commission”) July 2015 Declaratory Ruling and...more

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D.C. Circuit Sets Aside FCC’s Expansive Interpretation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act

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In a significant ruling for businesses, technological progress, and the economy at large, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously granted in part, and denied in part, various petitions for review of the Federal...more

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D.C. Circuit Issues Long-Awaited Decision in ACA Challenge to FCC TCPA Rulemaking

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On March 16, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued its long-awaited decision in ACA International v. FCC, invalidating several key pieces of the FCC’s 2015 Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)...more

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D.C. Circuit Dooms “Idiosyncratic” or “Imaginative” TCPA Revocation Efforts While Blessing Contractual Revocation Provisions in...

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Nearly a year-and-a-half after oral argument on the ACA International v. FCC petition for review of the Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC” or “Commission”) 2015 Omnibus Order (or “Omnibus”), the D.C. Circuit Court of...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

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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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ATDS, WTF? The DC Circuit Dismantles the FCC’s 2015 TCPA Order

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Following the FCC’s 2015 Telephone Consumer Protection Act Omnibus Order, following ten consolidated appeals of the Order filed shortly thereafter, and following an oral argument in 2016, on March 16, 2018 the DC Circuit...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

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

TCPA FCC Petitions Tracker

Kelley Drye’s Communications Practice Group presents this tracker of active Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) petitions before the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”). With the recent increase in litigation...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

TCPA Tracker - September 2017

Recent News - FCC’s 2015 Omnibus TCPA Declaratory Ruling Still Under Review at the D.C. Circuit - Nearly eleven months have passed since the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard oral argument in ACA...more

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TCPA FCC Petitions Tracker

Kelley Drye’s Communications Practice Group presents this tracker of active Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) petitions before the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”). With the recent increase in litigation...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

TCPA FCC Petitions Tracker

Kelley Drye’s Communications Practice Group presents this tracker of active Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) petitions before the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”). With the recent increase in litigation...more

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