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Can a TCPA plaintiff revoke consent to be contacted by “talking” to a pre-recorded message? Probably not. But this is the theory advanced by serial pro se litigant Na’eem Betz in Betz v. Synchrony Bank, currently pending in...more
In JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. v. Winget, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit addressed whether Larry Winget (Winget) could revoke the Larry J. Winget Living Trust (Trust) to make the assets unreachable to...more
A Kentucky district court judge recently granted in part and denied in part a defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) case, Barnett v. First National Bank of Omaha. The court held...more
Angel v. Tauch, __ S.W.3d __ (Tex. Jan. 14, 2022) [19-0793] - Facts: South State Bank held a $4.6 million judgment against Kyle Tauch, an individual. The Bank offered to settle the judgment debt for $2 million. Before...more
Contractual consent provisions are revocable, a Pennsylvania federal district court recently held in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) lawsuit, although it sent the issue of whether the plaintiff effectively revoked...more
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
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
The Eastern District of California recently entered summary judgment against a plaintiff because it found that the plaintiff failed to revoke his consent to receive auto-dialed calls on his cell phone. Wright v. USAA Savings...more
Medley v. Dish Network, LLC, No. 8:16-cv-02534-CEH-CPT (11th Cir. May 1, 2020). Plaintiff entered into a contract, providing her cell phone number and expressly authorizing Defendant “to contact [her] regarding [her] DISH...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held last week, in Medley v. DISH Network, LLC, that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) does not allow a consumer to unilaterally revoke consent to receive...more
On March 30, 2020, the American Bankers Association (“ABA”) and several other associations of banks and credit unions (together, “petitioners”) effectively asked the FCC to exempt all COVID-related calls and texts to...more
On March 3, the Third Circuit upheld the Eastern District of Pennsylvania’s judgment in favor of a repeat player in TCPA litigation, concluding that the plaintiff had standing to sue because the calls in question went to his...more
Editor’s Note: The average cost of a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) settlement is estimated at $6.6 million—and healthcare is among the top three industries being targeted for TCPA litigation. Though its sponsors in...more
The Eleventh Circuit has spoken on the interpretation of the automatic telephone dialing system (“ATDS”) definition, and held that to qualify as an ATDS a device must have the capacity to randomly or sequentially generate...more
In the realm of TCPA litigation, consent and revocation are bedrock issues that TCPA practitioners encounter on a daily basis. Amidst the often times complicated and nuanced legal issues surrounding the TCPA, a court in the...more
The Central District of California recently granted summary judgment to the defendant on a TCPA claim in Mendoza v. Allied Interstate LLC, SACV 17-885 JVS (KESx), 2019 WL 5616961 (C.D. Cal. Oct. 22, 2019), finding that the...more
The Middle District of Florida has denied a motion for class certification, finding the proposed class definition would have created a fail-safe class, the class members were not ascertainable, and the plaintiff’s claims were...more
As all of us TCPA enthusiasts know, a cornerstone issue in many TCPA cases is whether plaintiff has provided consent to be contacted and whether that consent can be revoked. According to the Second Circuit’s decision in Reyes...more
In a recently published decision, a federal court granted student loan processor Navient’s motion for summary judgment, concluding that a statutory exception that makes calls solely to collect a debt owed to or guaranteed by...more
Last week, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) published another friendly reminder that it was recently vested with the authority to revoke passports and deny passport applications for those with “seriously delinquent tax...more
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
• In most TCPA cases, a threshold question is whether a called party has provided prior express consent to receive calls (or texts) using an automatic telephone dialing system. • While numerous courts have ruled that a party...more