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The United States Supreme Court is the highest court of the United States and is charged with interpreting federal law, including the United States Constitution. The Court's docket is largely discretionary with only a limited number of cases granted review each term.  The Court is comprised of one chief justice and eight associate justices, who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate to hold lifetime positions. less -
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TCPA Quiet Hour Lawsuits Proliferate as FCC Considers the Legal Impact of Prior Consent

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The Telephone Consumer Protection Act is a federal statute that governs various telemarketing practices. Following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Facebook v. Duguid (narrowing the interpretation autodialer), the...more

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High Court Could Further Limit Deference With TCPA Fax Case in Law360

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Are district courts bound by both interpretive and final rules issued by the Federal Communications Commission? The U.S. Supreme Court‘s decision to hear the case of McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates Inc. v. McKesson...more

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Year-in-Review: 2024 TCPA Litigation

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The Telephone Consumer Protection Act is a major source of consumer privacy litigation against companies that engage in telemarketing. This past year, there was little change in the status quo of what constitutes an...more

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Autodialer TCPA Claim

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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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Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Case Regarding FCC’s Authority to Interpret Telephone Consumer Protection Act

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Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case that has the potential to sound the death knell to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) authority to bind courts to its interpretation of the Telephone...more

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Litigation Byte (January 2025 Edition)

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Delivered in digestible, insightful bites, McGlinchey’s Litigation Byte is a monthly roundup of financial services decisions and cases nationwide that impact your business....more

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SCOTUS Hears Arguments on Judicial Interpretation of Agency Authority Under the TCPA

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On January 21, 2025, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Corporation, et al., a case and decision that may have an outsized impact on the nature of judicial review of...more

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Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments on the Scope of Judicial Review Under the Hobbs Act

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On January 21, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Corporation. As discussed here, the primary issue is whether the Hobbs Act, which limits judicial...more

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

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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

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Developments in Association Law 2022 – 2024

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The following is a review of notable cases and regulatory developments for nonprofit organizations at the federal and state levels during the last two years....more

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Litigation Byte (June Edition)

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The Litigation Byte is the new name and format for McGlinchey’s Commercial Law Bulletin. Our new format reflects McGlinchey’s national coverage and our expanded footprint while still serving up the digestible, insightful...more

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Telephone and Texting Compliance News: Litigation Update — Second and Third Circuits Address Automatic Telephone Dialing Systems;...

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In the rapidly evolving landscape of Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) litigation, recent court decisions continue to provide defendant-friendly clarity as to what technology and platforms constitute automatic...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

July 2023 Class Action Blog Summary

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What are the most significant judicial decisions affecting class action litigation, and how might they impact your business?...more

Carlton Fields

11th Circuit Stands Alone in Barring All Class Incentive Awards

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Nearly three years after its decision in Johnson v. NPAS Solutions LLC, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals remains the only circuit in the nation to categorically bar class representatives from receiving incentive awards....more

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Class Counsel Asks Supreme Court to Address Propriety of Incentive Awards

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More than two years ago, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Johnson v. NPAS Solutions, LLC, 975 F.3d 1244 (11th Cir. 2020) that incentive payments for lead plaintiffs in class-action lawsuits are improper. After...more

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Please Remain Standing: 11th Circuit Rejects $35 Million GoDaddy Settlement Due to Absent Class Members Lack of Standing

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Class actions for money damages that involve class members who do not have Article III standing in the Eleventh Circuit are improper even if such members would have standing in other jurisdictions. In a unanimous decision...more

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No Incentive Awards for Class Representatives — Eleventh Circuit Rejects Reconsideration En Banc of Its One-of-a-Kind Bar

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Last week, the Eleventh Circuit declined, 7–4, to reconsider en banc a divided panel’s September 2020 decision barring incentive awards to class representatives for their work in class actions. As such, the Eleventh Circuit...more

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

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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

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Class Actions Quarterly Update: Supreme Court - September 2021

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The latest trends and developments in the class action world. Since our last update was published, the United States Supreme Court has addressed a number of appeals involving class actions. Requirement of Concrete...more

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Class Action Quarterly Update: TCPA

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An April Supreme Court ruling significantly reduced the scope of communications platforms that could be considered autodialers subject to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The decision in Facebook, Inc. v....more

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Sixth Circuit Holds Non-Expert Evidence Need Not Be Admissible to Support Class Certification, but Approves Stringent Claim...

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At Class Certification Stage, Non-Expert Evidence Must Be Reliable, but Not Necessarily Admissible: As the Supreme Court explained 40 years ago in General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. Falcon, 457 U.S. 147, 161 (1982),...more

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A Scalpel, Not a Chainsaw: Supreme Court Drastically Limits the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s Reach

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In December, we reported on the oral argument in the U.S. Supreme Court in Facebook v. Duguid, which presented the question of what was required for equipment to qualify as an automatic telephone dialing system (“ATDS”) under...more

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Supreme Court Issues Monumental TCPA Decision

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In a decision certain to have significant impact on Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class action litigation, today the U.S. Supreme Court concluded narrowly that to qualify as an “automatic telephone dialing system”,...more

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Class Action Trends Report Winter 2021

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Last year presented many challenges, and 2021 offers a fresh start. In this issue of the Class Actions Trends Report we review the most significant developments of 2020 and take a look forward to what a new year and a new...more

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TCPA Multi-Million Dollar Class Action Suits Continue to Batter the Cannabis Industry

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In recent months, the cannabis industry has been battered by proposed Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) class action suits and the message to this industry couldn’t be clearer: cannabis companies, big or small, that...more

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