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TCPA Quiet Hour Lawsuits Proliferate as FCC Considers the Legal Impact of Prior Consent

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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

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TCPA Litigation Update: Virginia, Texas, and Nevada Federal Courts Toss TCPA Lawsuits Over Lack of Clear Defendant Ties

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Federal district courts in Virginia, Texas, and Nevada have recently dismissed a series of lawsuits brought under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), finding that plaintiffs failed to show how the defendants were...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Court Dismisses TCPA Case Due to Failure to Plausibly Allege That the Defendant Made the Calls at Issue

A recent decision out of the Eastern District of Virginia, Matthews v. Senior Life Ins. Co., provides a helpful reminder that TCPA complaints do not satisfy Rule 8’s pleading standard if they do not plausibly link the...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

District of Arizona Denies Certification of Claims Against Defendant That Had Defaulted

A TCPA defendant in Arizona federal court recently uncovered what appears to be a previously undiscovered silver-lining to a default judgment: a denial of class certification....more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Seventh Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment and Adopts Narrow Interpretation of “Telephone Solicitations”

The Seventh Circuit recently affirmed entry of summary judgment against a TCPA plaintiff and adopted the Eastern District of Wisconsin’s interpretation of the phrase “telephone solicitations.” Hulce v. Zipongo, Inc., — F. 4th...more

Klein Moynihan Turco LLP

Act Quickly After Receiving a TCPA Subpoena

The discovery process is a crucial part of any Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) lawsuit. Oftentimes, important information and documents, such as consent records, will be in the possession of third parties. As a...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Python Bites Back: Counterclaims Based on Alleged Consent Survive Plaintiff’s Motion to Dismiss

TCPA defendants often assert, in either a motion to dismiss or answer (or both), that a plaintiff gave prior express consent to receive the calls or text messages at issue. But it is the exceptional case where a defendant...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Fourth Circuit Broadens TCPA’s Reach Over ‘Unsolicited Advertisements’

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has recently handed down a decision that impacts the TCPA landscape. In Family Health Physical Medicine, LLC v. Pulse8, LLC, the court reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a TCPA claim,...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Missouri Federal Court Dismisses Another TCPA Claim Due to Traceability Issues

A federal judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri recently dismissed a claim alleging multiple violations of the TCPA’s do-not-call regulations upon finding that plaintiffs had failed to...more

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First Circuit Rejects Class Action Settlement Based on Potential Intra-class Conflict, But Approves Named Plaintiff Incentive...

When negotiating a class action settlement, lawyers on both sides may need to consider whether subgroups within the class need to be separately represented by different counsel. The First Circuit recently reached that...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Serial TCPA Litigant Admonished by Court for Making Jurisdictional Allegations Without Factual Support

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The TCPA is a magnet for serial litigants. There are handful of individuals located in various states across the country who seem to account for an outsized share of TCPA filings, and who are sometimes known to resort to...more

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With Consumer Protection Class Actions On the Rise, Is the Financial Services Industry in the Crosshairs?

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Lawyers or business people who feel they have been hearing about a lot more consumer protection class actions lately have good reason for that feeling. A recent report by Lex Machina, part of LexisNexis, highlights an...more

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BREAKING: VoApp’s President Tells Ramble “Mistakes Were Made” in Case Finding DirectDrop Ringless Voicemail Platform Subject to...

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A few weeks back TCPAland broke the news of a first-in-the-nation result: so-called ringless voicemail products–such as DirectDrop–were found by a district court to constitute a “call” subject to the TCPA. Today the...more

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Seventh Circuit Rejects Latest Attempt To Pick Off TCPA Plaintiffs

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Defense counsel facing potential multimillion-dollar judgments from the threat of class action proceedings—particularly class actions brought under statutes providing for treble damages and attorney’s fees, such as the...more

Carlton Fields

The 2017 Carlton Fields Class Action Survey

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The 2017 Carlton Fields Class Action Survey has just been released, and the findings reveal some unexpected trends in class action litigation, based on insights provided by 387 general counsels and chief legal officers at...more

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Texas Anti-SLAPP Law: The Expanding Scope of the Texas Citizen’s Participation Act – Part 3

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The basics of the Texas Anti-SLAPP law In part three we are going to deep dive into a specific case that has garnered a lot of attention-Schlumberger v. Rutherford which is currently on appeal to the Houston Court of...more

Carlton Fields

Courts Reject Attempts to Pick Off Named Plaintiffs Via Offers Of Judgment

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Following the Supreme Court’s 2012 recognition of concurrent federal and state jurisdiction over Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) class actions in Mims v. Arrow Financial Services, federal courts have issued...more

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