Robocalling, Pleading Standards

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

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 5/6/2025

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

Telephone and Texting Compliance News: Litigation Update — Courts Continue to Scrutinize Pleadings in TCPA Cases

Mintz - Technology, Communications & Media... on 3/28/2024

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

The Aftermath of Facebook v. Duguid: Trends and Practical Tips

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP on 2/15/2022

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

Is There a Limit to Insurer Unwillingness to Cover Claims for Unsolicited Marketing Communications? Two Decisions by the Seventh...

Jenner & Block on 2/8/2022

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

District Court Holds Standard for Pleading and Proving TCPA Claim Raised After Gadelhak

Womble Bond Dickinson on 4/3/2020

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

Southern District of New York Holds TCPA Claim Fails To Satisfy Minimum Pleadings Requirements When Simply Parroting Statute

Burr & Forman on 10/30/2019

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

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

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 10/4/2019

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

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

Womble Bond Dickinson on 9/17/2018

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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