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Eleventh Circuit Axes FCC’s One-to-One Consent Rule, Citing Agency Overstep

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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

Husch Blackwell LLP

FCC Delays—then Eleventh Circuit Defenestrates—New TCPA Requirements for Prior Express Written Consent

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There is nothing quite like the 11th hour. On Monday, January 27, 2025, two new requirements for prior express written consent under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) were set to take effect. These requirements,...more

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Wisconsin Federal Court Finds that DNC Provision Extends to Text Messages

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On September 21, the Eastern District of Wisconsin denied a motion to partially dismiss a class action complaint alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), holding that the Do Not Call provision of...more

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FCC Rules Ringless Voicemails Fall Under TCPA and Require Consumer Consent

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On November 21, 2022, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a Declaratory Ruling and Order (“Order”) holding that ringless voicemails to wireless phones require consumer consent. The FCC further held that...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Circuit Split Created as Eleventh and Seventh Circuits Narrowly Interpret Definition of Auto-Dialer Under the TCPA

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

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Eleventh Circuit Endorses Narrow Definition of TCPA Autodialer Creating Circuit Split

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

Hogan Lovells

Eleventh Cir. Rejects Broad Reading of “Autodialer”

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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

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Glasser v. Hilton: Citing Principles of Statutory Interpretation, the Eleventh Circuit Drastically Reduces the Scope of TCPA

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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

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Supreme Court Agrees To Review The Constitutionality of the TCPA

Given how often TCPA cases are filed—and how often they push the envelope of the statute’s scope and the courts’ jurisdiction—it should come as no surprise that the Supreme Court is often asked to bring some sanity to the...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

The First Amendment Battleground: SCOTUS Asked to Review Two Ninth Circuit Decisions on the Constitutionality of the TCPA

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

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Court Holds That Text-Messaging System Must Be Able to Randomly or Sequentially Generate Numbers to Qualify as an ATDS

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

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Another Defendant Falls Victim to Marks' Broad Definition of an ATDS

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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

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First Trial Court In Fourth Circuit Holds ATDS Requires Random or Sequential Number Generation

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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

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Marks v. Crunch Update: Petition for Writ of Cert Filed with U.S. Supreme Court, Seeking Further Clarity on the Definition of an...

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On January 28, 2019, petitioner Crunch San Diego, LLC, filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the Court to review the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Marks v. Crunch San Diego, LLC, 904 F.3d...more

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TCPA Regulatory Update – FCC Seeks Comments on Several TCPA Provisions

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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

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Boldly Going: Its Crunch Time and Siruis Business as Individual Businesses Stick their Neck out for TCPA Change (TCPAland FCC...

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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

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Fall is for Falling Leaves, Thanksgiving, and TCPA Omnibus II?

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As this year speeds to a close, we are on pins and needles to see if the FCC will issue a ruling this Fall in the great ACA Int’l TCPA remand. After all, the FCC provided only two weeks for comment in its latest Public Notice...more

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Breaking TCPA News: FCC Seeks Further Comment on Interpretation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act in Light of the Ninth...

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Supplemental Public Notice on TCPA Scope Post Marks - Well the Marks case just got even bigger somehow. After the extreme position taken by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal two weeks ago the Federal Communications...more

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ATDS Appellate Watchdog: TCPA Autodialer Cases Pending in the Circuit Courts of Appeals You Can’t Miss Post-Marks

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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

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Prognosticating Post Marks: Will Courts in Other Jurisdictions Follow in the 9th Circuit’s Footsteps on the Definition of an ATDS...

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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

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Ninth Circuit Creates Split Of Authority as to TCPA’s Scope

• Parting company with the 3rd Circuit, the 9th Circuit has ruled that equipment that can automatically dial stored numbers may qualify as an ATDS under the TCPA. • The ruling creates a split of authority as to whether the...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

“X”-Treme Marks the Spot: Ninth Circuit Takes Extreme Position – Holds That All Dialers That Call Automatically From Lists Are...

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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

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Can You Hear Me Now? Important Considerations for Avoiding Penalties under the TCPA after ACA International

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

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TCPA ATDS Scorecard: A Mid-Summers’ Deep Dive into the Shifting ATDS Landscape post ACA Int’l

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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

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The FCC is Set to Consider the Definition of “Called Party” and the Fate of the TCPA Hangs in the Balance

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As we reported here last week, the FCC is seeking comment on a number of key issues that were addressed in ACA Int’l. One of these key issues is the definition of the term “called party,” which has the potential to completely...more

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