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I’m not willing to admit how many times I’ve listened to Carly Rae Jepsen’s hit “Call Me Maybe,” but I’m well enough versed in its lyrics to safely conclude she likely provided her romantic interest prior express consent to...more
On April 4, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) revealed that it will not support a rehearing of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) 1:1 consent requirement for robocalls/texts (“1:1 Consent Rule”)...more
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
We now have a split among federal circuits regarding the definition of an automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS), under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), which limits automated calls and text messages. What...more
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
On January 27, 2020, an Eleventh Circuit panel released a landmark ruling in Glasser v. Hilton Grand Vacations Company, LLC. The key issue in the case was how to interpret ambiguous language in the Telephone Consumer...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
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
It can fairly be said that the statutory definition of “automatic telephone dialing system” (“ATDS”) has generated far more questions than answers—for courts and litigants alike. This is especially true in the wake of ACA...more
In the span of fifteen days, TCPA defendants in two separate cases asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review two distinct but interwoven Ninth Circuit decisions on the constitutionality of the TCPA. Specifically, Facebook, Inc....more
The Northern District of Illinois recently entered summary judgment against a group of plaintiffs because it found the system at issue was not an ATDS. In Smith v. Premier Dermatology, No. 17-3712, 2019 WL 4261245 (N.D....more
The Marks decision gets stronger by the day. In a recent case out of the District Court for the Eastern District of California, a judge applied the Marks definition of an ATDS and granted the plaintiff’s motion for summary...more
For well over a year now since the D.C. Circuit’s opinion in ACA International v. FCC, the pendulum has swung back and forth amongst federal courts on the definition of an automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS) at...more
It has almost been a year since the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit released its decision in ACA International v. FCC, and since that time we have highlighted numerous cases in which a court’s...more
Thus far, lower courts within the Third Circuit have been all over the place in addressing the issue of ATDS functionality post-ACA Int’l, and the meaning of the Third Circuit’s opinion in Dominguez v. Yahoo!....more
Deploy Call Authentication Technology by 2019 or Else, FCC Tells Voice Providers - In letters sent to voice providers large and small by Chairman Pai on November 5 and 6, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”)...more
I make a point to never post on the weekends. But this is a huge deal. And although it is a beautiful autumn afternoon outside, we need to talk TCPAland. Congress just proposed a bill to attack robocalls by leveraging the...more
Comments are due in a number of important TCPA proceedings in October. In response to a major decision out of the Ninth Circuit last month, which further entrenched a circuit split regarding interpretations of the definition...more
As promised, here is Volume II following Eric’s Volume I, of our team’s analysis on the supplemental comments on the FCC’s TCPA Public Notice. Crunch San Diego, LLC - No surprises here. Crunch San Diego, LLC was armed...more
This week, Erin Kubota prognosticated how the United States Circuit Courts of Appeals will decide automatic telephone dialer cases (“ATDS”) post the monumental Marks ruling from the Ninth Circuit on September 20, 2018...more
We clearly do not have a crystal ball here in TCPAland, otherwise we would have been able to accurately predict the Ninth Circuit’s monumental recent decision in Marks v. Crunch San Diego, LLC, 2018 WL 4495553 (9th Cir. Sept....more
We broke the news this morning that the Ninth Circuit published its opinion in Marks v. Crunch San Diego, LLC, No. 14-56834, 2018 WL 4495553 (9th Cir. Sept. 20, 2018). We now have a new definition of an ATDS in the Ninth...more
In a previous blog post, we examined the “mixed bag” result of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion in ACA International v. Federal Communications Commission. The ACA International decision narrowed the scope of...more
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
Over the last few weeks we have written numerous articles assessing Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) cases addressing the scope of the statute’s definition of automated telephone dialing systems (“ATDs”) as the...more