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Litigation Byte (June 2025 Edition)

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SCOTUS Says: Hobbs Act Does Not Bind a District Court to the FCC’s Interpretation of a Statute - On May 1, 2025, the American Arbitration Association’s new amendments to the Consumer Arbitration Rules officially went into...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Leveling—or Blowing Up—the Hobbs Act Playing Field?

The Administrative Order Review Act (better known as the "Hobbs Act") grants "exclusive jurisdiction" to the federal courts of appeals to "determine the validity" of most FCC orders and rules and certain other agency orders....more

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Telephone and Texting Compliance — US Supreme Court Sends TCPA District Courts Back to Square One While Breathing New Life into...

In a new 6-3 opinion, the US Supreme Court has cast further doubt into TCPA litigation. The decade-old underlying case, McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Corporation et al., was filed after the defendant...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Supreme Court: Hobbs Act does not require federal courts to defer to FCC

On June 20, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Corp., holding that the federal Hobbs Act does not bind district courts in civil enforcement proceedings to a...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

SCOTUS Says District Courts Are Not Bound by FCC Orders Interpreting the TCPA

On June 20, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered an opinion that could dramatically change the landscape of class actions under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)....more

Klein Moynihan Turco LLP

Surge in TCPA Quiet Time Litigation

Our readers may recall a recent piece in which we discussed a petition seeking clarity from the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) about the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (“TCPA”) applicability to calls made late...more

Hinch Newman LLP

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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