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Telephone and Texting Compliance News: Litigation Update — Eyes on Appeals: Fourth Circuit May Weigh In on E-SIGN Act; Stay...

Mintz - Technology, Communications & Media... on 12/24/2024

Fourth Circuit Potentially Weighing In on E-SIGN Act - As we previously covered, a defendant making “winback” calls found itself mired in a TCPA class action in the US District Court for the District of Maryland in a case...more

ATDS Status Turns on Capability of Dialing Equipment, Not Actual Use, Third Circuit Holds—But Liability Turns on Actual Use, Not...

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 6/22/2022

Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit concluded that the TCPA’s definition of “automatic telephone dialing system” (or “ATDS”) includes all dialing equipment with the present ability to generate random or...more

District Court Departs from Supreme Court Plurality to Find Government-Debt Collector Retroactively Liable Under TCPA — But...

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 5/10/2021

For nearly five years, the TCPA explicitly excluded from liability calls made to collect government-backed debt. Naturally, government debt collectors relied on this exception and called debtors without fear of TCPA...more

Florida Real Property & Business Litigation Report, Volume 13, Issue 28

McGlinchey Stafford on 7/14/2020

Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc., Case No. 19–631 (2020). The federal government cannot exempt itself from the anti-robocall provisions of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, 47 U. S. C....more

Supreme Court to Decide Class Action Issues Involving Settlement Offers to Named Plaintiffs, Statistical Sampling and Class Member...

Robinson & Cole LLP on 6/17/2015

I’ve been delayed a bit in reporting on this, but the October 2015 term of the U.S. Supreme Court is shaping up to be a blockbuster one for class action law. Perhaps even bigger than the October 2010 term, which brought us...more

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