Episode 322 -- Checking in on Caremark Cases
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
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in 15 cases: Waetzig v. Halliburton Energy Solutions, No. 23-971: This case concerns the intersection between Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41, which...more
A couple of recent district court decisions confirm that courts across the country continue to scrutinize and will dismiss complaints that contain conclusory and/or contradictory allegations without facts to support...more
As we discussed in a post last year the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in the Spring of 2021, on the TCPA’s definition of an “automatic telephone dialing system.” In that decision, called Facebook v. Duguid, the...more
Among the many unusual aspects of 2021 is that the same insurance company was before a federal appellate court on two separate but contemporaneous cases – one in which the insurer was asserting a lack of insurance coverage...more
Written by Nikku Khalifian Political campaigns remain prime targets during election season. And, despite a narrow interpretation of an ATDS by the Seventh Circuit, one District Court in Illinois found that the Plaintiff had...more
Real Property Update - Foreclosure / Note: Trial court could not challenge authenticity of note as copy where borrower had not pleaded defenses and lender was not afforded advanced notice of dispositive issue to be tried -...more
The United States District Court for the District of Connecticut recently granted a Defendant’s motion to dismiss Plaintiffs’ TCPA claims because Plaintiffs failed to adequately allege facts supporting an inference that...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Recent activity within the federal Courts of Appeals this spring may prompt Supreme Court resolution of a central and unsettled issue concerning personal jurisdiction in the class-action context causing...more
The Seventh Circuit recently held in Gadelhak v. AT&T Services, Inc., 950 F.3d 458 (7th Cir. 2020) that the statutory definition of ATDS requires that a device have the capacity to randomly or sequentially generate numbers to...more
Lazar Shcherb v. Angi Homeservices, Inc., 19-cv-367 (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 25, 2019) - Plaintiff filed suit against various corporate defendants alleging that they used an automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS) to call his cell...more
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
Real Property Update - Foreclosure Sale: borrowers failed to allege adequate equitable factors and make proper showing to justify setting aside foreclosure sale, but instead re-litigate issues determined in underlying...more
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
Well Ocwen is certainly on a roll. Just weeks after delivering a stellar win on ATDS issues in Keyes, the feisty servicer is at it again, delivering TCPAland its first ATDS ruling out of the state of Florida following ACA...more
The Eastern District of New York in Banks v. Solar, No. 17-CV-613 (LDH) (JO), 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 128182 (E.D.N.Y. July 31, 2018), recently denied Defendant’s motion to dismiss Plaintiff’s putative class action alleging...more
As many of you already know, Facebook recently obtained a dismissal of a text message case on the ground that the texts were not sent randomly but, instead, were directed to specific users. This case (Duguid) was only the...more
The Illinois Supreme Court issued an opinion earlier today clarifying the level of detail plaintiffs must include in a motion for class certification in order to avoid dismissal of claims as moot based on a defendant’s tender...more
On March 25, 2014, Brian Jackson received a text message on his cellular phone, allegedly making an offer for cruise ticks on behalf of Caribbean Cruise Line (“CCL”). Jackson filed suit against AdSource Marketing Ltd....more