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Telephone and Texting Compliance News: Litigation Update — One-to-One Consent Eleventh Circuit Challenge Dead

One-to-One Consent 11th Circuit Challenge Dead - As we previously reported, after the Eleventh Circuit vacated the Federal Communications Commission’s much-anticipated one-to-one consent rule in Insurance Marketing...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

FCC Dials Back TCPA Rules While Consumer and Small Business Groups Move to Intervene

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The first months of 2025 have brought a number of notable developments in TCPA litigation and compliance, kicking off with the eleventh-hour announcement by the FCC on January 24 that it would postpone the effective date of...more

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FCC “One-to-One Rule” Case: States File Amicus Brief in Support of Rehearing

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Last month, we discussed the motion filed by the National Consumers League and four small business owners to intervene in the case of Insurance Marketing Coalition Limited. v. FCC. This motion aimed to challenge the Eleventh...more

Klein Moynihan Turco LLP

Autodialer TCPA Claim

Following the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Facebook v. Duguid, consumers alleging Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) claims against companies for using an automatic telephone dialing system (“ATDS”) are...more

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Eleventh Circuit Strikes Down FCC Order Interpreting the TCPA

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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

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Eleventh Circuit Strikes Down One-to-One Consent Rule

On February 6, 2025, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the FCC’s one-to-one consent rule. Applying the Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enters. v. Raimondo, 9 the Eleventh Circuit ruled that the FCC...more

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Loper Bright Strikes Again: Eleventh Circuit Hangs Up on FCC's One-to-One Consent Rule, Calling the Validity of Other TCPA Rules...

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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

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

11th Circuit vacates part of FCC’s rule on “prior express consent”

On January 24, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit vacated Part III.D of the FCC’s 2023 Order, known as the “one-to-one consent rule” in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), which was scheduled to take...more

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Eleventh Circuit Axes FCC’s One-to-One Consent Rule, Citing Agency Overstep

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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

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Eleventh Circuit Vacates FCC’s TCPA One-to-One Consent Rule on Eve of Effective Date

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On Friday, January 24, 2025, just one business day before it was to take effect on January 27, the Eleventh Circuit vacated the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) One-to-One Consent Rule that was adopted as an...more

Klein Moynihan Turco LLP

One-to-One Consent Rule Vacated: What Comes Next?

In a stunning, if not entirely unexpected development, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has vacated the Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC”) one-to-one consent rule. The decision prevented...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The Ninth Circuit Further Narrows The Meaning Of ATDS Under The Telephone Consumer Protection Act

Among other things, the federal TCPA imposes liability for calling/texting cell phone numbers using an Automatic Telephone Dialing System (“ATDS”) without sufficient prior express consent. As defined by the TCPA, ATDS is...more

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DC Circuit Affirms Exemption for Certain Commercial Non-Telemarketing Calls

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit) recently denied a petition to review a 2020 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order that permitted callers to place commercial...more

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Seventh Circuit Adopts Narrow Definition of Autodialer Under The TCPA

The Seventh Circuit has recently joined the Second, Third, Sixth and Eleventh Circuits in adopting a narrow interpretation of Automatic Telephone Dialing System (ATDS) under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), one...more

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Seventh Circuit Joins Third and Eleventh Circuits in “Autodialer” Circuit Split

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Slowly but surely, the U.S. Courts of Appeal increasingly agree on how to interpret the definition of “automatic telephone dialing system” (“ATDS” or “autodialer”) in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”). On...more

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Seventh Circuit Deals Another Critical Blow to TCPA Litigation

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Following the Eleventh Circuit’s opinion a few weeks ago, the Seventh Circuit just held that dialing equipment must be capable of storing or producing telephone numbers using a random or sequential number generator in order...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Eleventh Circuit Endorses Narrow Definition of TCPA Autodialer Creating Circuit Split

On January 27, 2020, a federal court of appeals issued a significant decision interpreting the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (commonly referred to as the “TCPA”) in a way that limits the expansive potential liability...more

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Glasser v. Hilton: Citing Principles of Statutory Interpretation, the Eleventh Circuit Drastically Reduces the Scope of TCPA

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The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA” or the “Act”) has limited telephone calls that can be placed using certain automated equipment since 1991.  However, since passage of the Act there has been considerable debate...more

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The Sixth Circuit Limits the Meaning of ATDS Under the TCPA

Recently, the Sixth Circuit in Gary v. Trueblue, Inc., No. 18-2281, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 26959 (6th Cir. Sep. 5, 2019), weighed in on the meaning of Automatic Telephone Dialing System (“ATDS”) under the Telephone Consumer...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Ninth Circuit Opens Door for More Expansive Meaning of ATDS in TCPA Cases

In the recent case of Marks v. Crunch San Diego, LLC, 904 F.3d 1041 (9th Cir. 2018) the Ninth Circuit broadly interpreted the TCPA’s definition of automatic telephone dialing system (often referred to as ATDS) to include...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Rikki, Don’t Autodial That Number! – Ninth Circuit Doesn’t Want You To Call Nobody Else (in violation of the TCPA)

Class action plaintiffs’ attorneys may argue that a recent ruling by the Ninth Circuit expands the scope of liability under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) to include calls or text messages sent on all modern...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Ninth Circuit Accepts Broad Definition of ATDS

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A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday handed the plaintiffs’ bar a resounding win. ...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ TCPA Ruling Is a Mixed Bag

On March 16, 2018, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its long-awaited Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) opinion in ACA International v. Federal Communications Commission, a consolidated appeal of the FCC’s July...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

ACA International v. F.C.C., et al.

• The D.C. Circuit reviewed a 2015 FCC order that interpreted the TCPA’s prohibition against using automated dialing devices to make unsolicited calls to cellular telephones. The court set aside two portions of the 2015 Order...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Third Circuit Gives TCPA Autodialer Plaintiffs Staying Power

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently became the first federal appellate court to apply the Federal Communications Commission’s declaratory ruling that expanded the notion of what constitutes an...more

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