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Telephone and Texting Compliance News — November 2024

We are pleased to present our latest edition of Telephone and Texting Compliance News, providing insights and news related to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). In this month’s Regulatory Update, we cover an FCC...more

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Fourth Circuit Denies Class Certification Based on Lack of Ascertainability Due to Online Fax Services Being Outside TCPA’s...

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In Career Counseling, Inc. v. Amerifactors Financial Group, LLC, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld a district court’s decision denying class certification in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)...more

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Seventh Circuit Disagrees with Ninth Circuit and Joins the Third and Eleventh Circuit in Adopting a Narrow Interpretation of ATDS

In a decision released on February 19 that relied principally on rules of grammar, the Seventh Circuit held that to be an ATDS under the TCPA, a device must be capable of storing or producing telephone numbers using a random...more

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Federal Missouri Court Continues To Rein In Expansive TCPA Interpretation

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The Telephone Consumer Protection Act case law interpreting the definition of an “automatic telephone dialing system” (“ATDS”) is changing under plaintiffs’ feet and coalescing against the definition set forth in Marks v....more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Court Finds That Some Soundboard Calls Can Qualify As “Prerecorded Voice” Calls, At Least When They Do Not “Interact With the...

As we previously discussed, the need for clarification as to the TCPA’s treatment of outbound calls made using soundboard technology (“soundboard calls”) is particularly manifest in light of two pending petitions before the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The Sixth Circuit Limits the Meaning of ATDS Under the TCPA

Recently, the Sixth Circuit in Gary v. Trueblue, Inc., No. 18-2281, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 26959 (6th Cir. Sep. 5, 2019), weighed in on the meaning of Automatic Telephone Dialing System (“ATDS”) under the Telephone Consumer...more

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District of Minnesota Rejects Marks, Grants Defendant Summary Judgment in TCPA Case

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On November 13, 2018, the District of Minnesota rejected the Ninth Circuit’s expansive interpretation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (TCPA’s) automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS) provision in Marks v. Crunch...more

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Any Way You Slice It: Court Holds LiveVox HCI is Not an ATDS Under Even the Broadest Reading of the Term

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Even under Marks, a manually-dialed call remains excluded from the TCPA, at least according to a new decision out yesterday. The District Court in Hatuey v. Ic Sys., No. 1:16-cv-12542-DPW, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 193713 (D....more

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Reversal of Fortune: Court Reconsiders and Reverses Earlier Ruling Finding That Contractual Consent Cannot Be Revoked

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As of yesterday, the “Good Reyes” contractual consent decision in Tina Few v. Receivables Performance Management out of the Northern District of Alabama has officially been reconsidered and reversed. Cue the sad trombone. As...more

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Rikki, Don’t Autodial That Number! – Ninth Circuit Doesn’t Want You To Call Nobody Else (in violation of the TCPA)

Class action plaintiffs’ attorneys may argue that a recent ruling by the Ninth Circuit expands the scope of liability under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) to include calls or text messages sent on all modern...more

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TCPA Case Closed!: Trueblue Defendants Finish the Deal– Earn Summary Judgment Because System Did not Dial Randomly or...

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Marks? What’s Marks? That’s the question TCPA litigants may be asking themselves after today’s big win by Defendants in Gary v. Gershwin A. Drain Trueblue, Case No. 17-cv-10544, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 175021 (E.D. Mich....more

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TCPA Alert – What’s that Crunch-ing sound? Reason being destroyed in the Ninth Circuit

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Ever since the D.C. Circuit’s ruling six months ago in ACA Int’l v. FCC, 885 F.3d 687 (D.C. Cir. 2018), which invalidated the FCC’s interpretation of an Automatic Telephone Dialing System (“ATDS”), a consensus had been...more

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Ninth Circuit Adopts Expansive Definition of Auto-Dialer in TCPA Case

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In a ruling that increases liability for companies that use text messaging for marketing or communicating with customers, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit adopted an expansive definition of what constitutes an...more

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Bargained-For Consent: An Increasingly Viable Defense to TCPA Claims

• In most TCPA cases, a threshold question is whether a called party has provided prior express consent to receive calls (or texts) using an automatic telephone dialing system. • While numerous courts have ruled that a party...more

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REPUBLISHED TCPA Horror Story: 1 Fax+1 Lawsuit = $12.5M Award– Man’s home, business in limbo

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OCEAN CITY – A local man is fighting to save his beachfront home after a crushing legal award of $12.5 million in damages. He said it’s over sending a single fax to a company in Pope County, Ark. Gene Kalsky was recently...more

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“One Way” Or Another: Bad Reyes Saga Continues With One-Way Intervention Challenge to Court’s Certification Ruling

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While I never take pleasure in another’s misfortune, I am a tad giddy watching the machinations in the Bad Reyes case play out. First, the Court granted, in part, the Plaintiff’s summary judgment motion concluding that the...more

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The Saga Continues: Fourth Post-ACA Int’l Case on ATDS Functionality Holds FCC’s 2003 Ruling “Still Stands”

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The saga continues in the post-ACA Int’l fight over ATDS functionality. Eric described Bad Reyes as the Empire Strikes Back. If that’s the case then that makes Marshall A New Hope, and Herrick the Return of the Jedi. Now...more

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Ninth Circuit Weighs in on Prior Express Consent and Revocation of Consent

The Ninth Circuit recently weighed in on the limitations of prior express consent and revocation under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (the “TCPA”). In Van Patten v. Vertical Fitness Group, LLC, the consumer provided...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Second Circuit Blazes New Trail in Set-Top Box Cases: Cable Service and Boxes Are Not Separate Products

Since 2008, cable customers have been suing cable operators across the country claiming operators violate the antitrust laws by forcing customers to lease set-top boxes from the operator to access “premium” cable services. ...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Third Circuit Gives TCPA Autodialer Plaintiffs Staying Power

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently became the first federal appellate court to apply the Federal Communications Commission’s declaratory ruling that expanded the notion of what constitutes an...more

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Third Circuit Allows Putative TCPA Class Action to Proceed, Citing FCC Ruling

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On October 23, 2015, the Third Circuit vacated a summary judgment decision in Yahoo, Inc.’s favor based on a recent Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) order that expanded the definition of an “autodialer” under the...more

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