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On January 18, a court in the Eastern District of Wisconsin denied class certification in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) case concluding that the factual issue of whether the proposed class members had suffered an...more
A single text is sufficient to establish standing for purposes of the Florida Telephone Solicitation Act (FTSA), the Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently held in an unpublished per curiam opinion, doubling down on...more
Recently, a federal judge in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington granted in part a motion to dismiss a TCPA claim in a putative class action. The Court found that although the plaintiff...more
No one likes receiving telemarketing calls or text messages from strangers. That’s one reason Congress enacted the Telephone Consumer Protection Act more than 30 years ago. Initially designed, in part, to combat the scourge...more
As part of Manatt’s continuing monthly coverage of the aftermath of Facebook v. Duguid and how district courts are applying it to determine whether a calling system meets the Supreme Court’s newly clarified definition of an...more
The owner and subscriber of a cellphone listed on the National Do Not Call Registry has Article III standing to bring claims under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) for unsolicited calls or text messages directed...more
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There is a continuing question regarding Article III standing for cases brought under the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act in Florida. To give the very quick recap: In 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...more
In a prior Law360 guest article, we addressed the issue of standing for Telephone Consumer Protection Act class actions in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. As we noted in the article, the metes and bounds...more
This week, the Court addresses the constitutionality of a nearly $1 billion statutory damages award under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and revives a California state law whistleblower claim. The Court...more
September 2022 Action Clarifies Only Random Calls Trigger TCPA Violations — Not Mere Use of An Autodialer - Mehl v. Green, et al. 2022 WL 4056269 (E.D. Cal. Sept. 2, 2022) - A law firm was recently sued after one of its...more
Widening a split among courts that have considered the issue, a North Carolina district court held that a violation of the Do Not Call (DNC) regulations of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) triggered liability under...more
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
The Southern District of Florida recently remanded a case back to state court because the defendant that removed the case failed to establish that plaintiff suffered an Article III injury. Harris v. Travel Resorts of America,...more
Will anything stop the continuing barrage of class action lawsuits under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)? In 2020, TCPA lawsuits remained one of the most commonly-filed type of class action in federal courts...more
Welcome to Three Point Shot, a newsletter brought to you by the Sports Law Group at Proskauer. Three Point Shot brings you the latest in sports law-related news and provides you with links to related materials. In this issue,...more
With its potential for lucrative statutory damages, the TCPA attracts serial litigants like moths to a flame. In response, some businesses are trying to help callers avoid calling numbers associated with serial litigants by...more
As we previously reported, the Eleventh Circuit recently held that receiving a single, unsolicited text message does not constitute the harm necessary to achieve Article III standing in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act...more
Financial Services Update - TCPA / ATDS: lender's dialer equipment not an ATDS because it is not capable of generating and dialing random or sequential numbers - Brown v. Ocwen Loan Serv. LLC, No. 8:18-cv-136-T-60AEP (M.D....more
On May 30, 2019, the Fourth Circuit affirmed a $61,000,000 classwide judgment against Dish Network based on violations of the TCPA’s National Do Not Call Registry (“DNC”) rules committed by Dish’s outside agent Satellite...more
The TCPA is a serial litigant’s playground. Each has their own playbook, but one of the most common plays is listing a cell number online as a business phone number to lure calls from business-to-business marketers. Unwary...more
A single missed call from a telemarketer constitutes a concrete injury that gives rise to standing, a federal district court in California has ruled. In Shuckett v. DialAmerica Marketing, Inc., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 29598...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
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