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Robocall Update: New Call Authentication Order and Obligations, Explained
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Discussing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and the 2020 Election
Since 2009 Courts have been applying FCC rulings suggesting that text messages are calls subject to the TCPA even though text messages didn’t exist at the time the TCPA was passed and the statute does not mention text...more
Companies that rely on digital marketing are awaiting a pivotal decision from the US Supreme Court on how federal courts should treat a Federal Communications Commission interpretation of a law against junk faxes. ...more
A federal appeals court has invalidated the FCC’s attempt to require broadcasters to file annual reports disclosing the race, ethnicity, and gender of their employees....more
Our readers may recall a recent piece in which we discussed a petition seeking clarity from the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) about the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (“TCPA”) applicability to calls made late...more
Recent political and legal developments call into question the future of the Federal Communications Commission’s in-house enforcement practices....more
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act is a federal statute that governs various telemarketing practices. Following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Facebook v. Duguid (narrowing the interpretation autodialer), the...more
I’m not willing to admit how many times I’ve listened to Carly Rae Jepsen’s hit “Call Me Maybe,” but I’m well enough versed in its lyrics to safely conclude she likely provided her romantic interest prior express consent to...more
Are district courts bound by both interpretive and final rules issued by the Federal Communications Commission? The U.S. Supreme Court‘s decision to hear the case of McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates Inc. v. McKesson...more
TCPA litigation, like spring flowers, is in full bloom this season. Over the past several months, major decisions have come down related to the FCC’s one-to-one consent rule (which we covered in our last update) as well as...more
On April 4, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) revealed that it will not support a rehearing of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) 1:1 consent requirement for robocalls/texts (“1:1 Consent Rule”)...more
The TCPA generally prohibits the transmission of an “unsolicited advertisement” to a “telephone facsimile machine.” 47 U.S.C. § 227(b)(1)(c). But is an “online fax service” a “telephone facsimile machine”? And can a plaintiff...more
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Federal Communications Commission v. Consumers’ Research (consolidated with SHLB Coalition v. Consumers’ Research), a case about the role of executive administrative...more
On March 12, 2025, Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) chair, Brendan Carr, opened a new docket titled In Re: Delete, Delete, Delete (the “Notice”), asking for the public’s help in identifying “unnecessary” FCC rules,...more
We have previously written about two consolidated cases (Loper Bright and Relentless), in which the Supreme Court reversed a decades-old rule known as the Chevron doctrine. Broadly, the Chevron doctrine required courts to...more
On January 24, the Eleventh Circuit issued a decision clarifying the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) limited authority to expand businesses’ obligations under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). This...more
Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case that has the potential to sound the death knell to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) authority to bind courts to its interpretation of the Telephone...more
In Insurance Marketing Coalition Ltd. v. FCC, — F.4th —-, 2025 WL 289152 (11th Cir. Jan. 24, 2025), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit came to the rescue of the lead generation industry, striking down new...more
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently vacated the Federal Communications Commission’s 2023 “one-to-one consent rule” under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). In Insurance Marketing Coalition, Ltd. v....more
On January 24, 2025, only 48 hours before the Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC”) FCC 23-107 Order was set to go into effect, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Insurance Marketing...more
A 2023 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Order interpreted the Telephone Consumer Protection Act as requiring that consumers provide specific one-to-one consent to receive robocalls. The purpose was to fill what the FCC...more
On January 21, 2025, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Corporation, et al., a case and decision that may have an outsized impact on the nature of judicial review of...more
There is nothing quite like the 11th hour. On Monday, January 27, 2025, two new requirements for prior express written consent under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) were set to take effect. These requirements,...more
Our regular readers will no doubt be familiar with the one-to-one-consent and logically-and-topically-related requirements the FCC (under the prior administration) had tried to impose as a way to close what it had described...more
Insurance Marketing Coalition, Ltd. v. Federal Communications Commissions, No. 24-10277, 2025 WL 289152 (11th Cir. Jan. 24, 2025) - “At bottom, the FCC has ‘decreed a duty on [lead generators] that the statute does not...more
On January 21, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Corporation. As discussed here, the primary issue is whether the Hobbs Act, which limits judicial...more