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Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Post-Facebook v. Duguid Litigation Roundup (UPDATED)

As part of Manatt’s continuing monthly coverage of the aftermath of Facebook v. Duguid and how district courts are applying it to determine whether a calling system meets the Supreme Court’s newly clarified definition of an...more

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CEO Evades Personal Liability in TCPA Suit

A New Jersey federal court has refused to hold the CEO of companies also named as defendants in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) lawsuit personally liable. ...more

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Oregon District Court holds that Revocation Cannot Be Imputed to a Party That Never Received Revocation Notification

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In Miler v. Td Bank United States, No. 3:20-cv-00340-BR, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 184658 (D. Or. Oct. 6, 2020), the District Court of Oregon granted Target’s motion to dismiss on the grounds that Plaintiff failed to allege facts...more

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Court Finds Communications Regarding Employment Opportunity Not Advertisement or Telemarketing Under TCPA

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The TCPA’s regulation of automated telephone calls differ based upon the purpose of the call and/or the content of the message communicated.  Specifically, the TCPA imposes heightened requirements for calls that are deemed...more

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From the Four Corners of the Pleading: Plaintiffs Cannot Rely On Factual Allegations Outside the Pleadings To Defeat a Motion to...

The Northern District of Texas recently dismissed a TCPA claim because “the Complaint nowhere alleges that he was called or texted using an ATDS.” The Court’s opinion emphasized that simply asserting that “the text messages...more

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Ninth Circuit Affirms Certification Of Biometric Privacy Class Action Against Facebook

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On August 8, the Ninth Circuit issued a highly anticipated decision affirming the district court’s certification of a class of Facebook users who suffered alleged violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act...more

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Marks Makes its Mark: First District Court TCPA Decision Relying On Marks Upholds Threadbare ATDS Pleadings

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Well that didn’t take long. Yesterday the court in Keifer v. Hosopo Corp., Case No. 3:18-cv-1353, 2018 U.S. Dist. Lexis 183468 (S.D. Cal. Oct. 25, 2018) issued the first ATDS decision in the country relying on Marks. Not...more

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Ninth Circuit Drops the Hammer on Opt Out Evader in TCPA Case

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Today the Ninth Circuit made it clear that it will not tolerate Opt-Out Evaders in its Circuit. Opt-out evaders are unpleasant residents of TCPAland that set up “test” cases by, inter alia, sending everything but “stop” to...more

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Polly Want Statutory Damages?: Court Confirms Parroting the Language of the TCPA Won’t Get You Far

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In Montinola v. Synchrony Bank, Civil Action No. 17-8963, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 146716 (D.N.J. Aug. 28, 2018), the District of New Jersey granted defendant’s Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss based on Plaintiff’s failure to...more

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It Will All Come Out in the “Wash”: Did a Southern California District Court Just Solve the TCPA’s ACA Int’l/ATDS Conundrum Once...

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Sometimes the most obvious answer is the hardest one to see. For weeks now the courts have been debating whether the 2003 and 2008 Predictive Dialer Rulings were set aside by ACA Int’l or just the 2015 TCPA Omnibus ruling....more

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“Flu Shots Available”: Court Finds that These Three Little Words Are Within the Scope of Consent Provided to Receive Texts Related...

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In Bailey v. CVS Pharmacy, Inc., 2018 WL 3866701 (D.N.J. Aug. 14, 2018), Plaintiff Jaclyn Bailey filed a putative class action alleging that CVS violated the TCPA by sending text messages to its customers notifying them that...more

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Two Texts are Apparently Enough to Allege ATDS Use as Courts Continue to Struggle with Pleading Standard in TCPA Text Cases

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On June 7, 2018, a Florida district court held that Plaintiff’s putative class action allegations that Defendant twice texted his cell phone number without consent using an ATDS was sufficient to state a claim under the TCPA...more

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Plaintiff’s TCPA Joyride Comes to a Swift End: Court Tosses Putative Text Message Class Action After Finding Plaintiff Consented...

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TCPALand is filled with people trying to game the system, especially when it comes to text message TCPA cases. You’ve got the classic opt-out evader, as we just saw in the Edible Arrangements case. But sometimes, the play...more

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Lifesaving Texts Survive TCPA Claims

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The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana recently dismissed TCPA (Telephone Consumer Protection Act) claims filed in a putative class action against the non-profit American Heart Association,...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

5 TCPA Class Action Trends to Watch in 2018 – Legislation, Administrative Law & Litigation

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

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Federal Court Denies Class Certification in TCPA Suit Against Auto-Lender Exeter Finance

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In Billy Ginwright v. Exeter Finance Corp., No. 8:16-cv-565-TDC, ECF No. 107, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 194739, 2017 WL 5716756 (D. Md. Nov. 28, 2017), a federal district court recently denied Plaintiff’s motion to certify a...more

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Court Bends Every Procedural Rule to Grant Dismissal to Kohl’s in “Opt-Out Evader” TCPA Text Suit –Blesses Contractual Revocation...

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One of the most annoying inhabitants of TCPA land is the Opt-Out Evader. This fellow or lady tries to set up TCPA lawsuits by texting phrases s/he knows will not be recognized by text service providers. Rather than simply...more

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Browsewrap Disclosure Held Insufficient to Constitute “Prior Express Written Consent” Even for a Healthcare-Related Call

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Folks involved with selling health insurance, or anything else for that matter, and who rely upon browsewrap website terms might want to give Sullivan v. All Web Leads, Inc., No. 17-cv-1307, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 84232 (N.D....more

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Facebook’s Birthday Text Lawsuit Survives Pleadings Stage; TCPA Survives Strict Scrutiny for the First Time

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Just when we thought Facebook was safe from the TCPA—remember Duguid—Judge Henderson found otherwise. In Colin Brickman, v. Facebook, 2017 WL 386238 (N.D. Cal. Jan. 27, 2017), the Court denied Facebook’s motion to dismiss,...more

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Third Circuit Holds TCPA Allows Revocation of “Prior Express Consent”

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed dismissal of an action under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by plaintiff alleging that defendant, a lender, violated the TCPA by calling her cellular...more

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