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Telephone Consumer Protection Act Class Action Statutory Interpretation

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act is a United States federal statute enacted in 1991 to protect consumers from unsolicited telephone marketing calls.  
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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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TCPA Turnstile: TCPA Litigation Continues to Spring to Life in 2025 (TCPA Update Vol. 20)

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TCPA litigation, like spring flowers, is in full bloom this season. Over the past several months, major decisions have come down related to the FCC’s one-to-one consent rule (which we covered in our last update) as well as...more

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

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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Third Circuit Denies Class Certification But Upholds TCPA’s Restrictions on Unsolicited Fax Advertisements

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Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued an opinion denying class certification in a case under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) finding common issues did not predominate the individual...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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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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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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Court Denies GrubHub’s Motion to Dismiss in TCPA Class Action

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois denied a motion to dismiss a class action for allegations that GrubHub, Inc. violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The plaintiff alleged that she...more

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Seventh Circuit Joins Third and Eleventh Circuits in “Autodialer” Circuit Split

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Slowly but surely, the U.S. Courts of Appeal increasingly agree on how to interpret the definition of “automatic telephone dialing system” (“ATDS” or “autodialer”) in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”). On...more

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Eleventh Circuit Decision “Marks” a Further Shift in the TCPA Landscape

Key Points - On January 27, 2020, the 11th Circuit held that telephone equipment must randomly or sequentially generate numbers in order to constitute an “automatic telephone dialing system” (ATDS) under the Telephone...more

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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

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Cruise Line Sails into Sea of TCPA Liability from Vendor’s Use of Soundboard Tech

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New communications technologies are being adopted at a rapid pace by industry.  This has led to the emergence of legal questions over whether this new technology is regulated by the TCPA.  One such question, which has seen...more

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Despite Holding the TCPA’s Government Debt Exemption is Unconstitutional, the District of Massachusetts Permits Class Claims to...

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On September 24, 2019, the District of Massachusetts held in Katz v. Liberty Power Corp., LLC that the government debt collection exemption to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), 47 U.S.C. §§ 227 et seq., is an...more

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TCPA Disaster: Court Finds Manual Call May Still Violate the TCPA If It Occurred On Equipment That Has the Capacity to Dial...

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As the battle over the definition of an ATDS continues throughout the nation, a District Court in Virginia just entered the fight with a dagger. In Morgan v. On Deck Capital, Case No. 3:17-CV-00045, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS...more

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First Circuit Concludes that Hybrid Cellular-VoIP Telephone Numbers Are Subject to TCPA

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The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reversed a summary judgment granted in favor of Verizon, by concluding that a “hybrid” telephone number using both VoIP and voice wireless services must be considered “assigned to a…...more

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Controlled Chaos?: FCC Withdraws Overruled Portion of Solicited Fax Rule One Day After Supreme Court Accepts Review of Different...

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The TCPA jockeying continues at the FCC. As we reported on Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court has just granted cert to determine whether or not the FCC’s definition of “unsolicited advertisement” in its 2006 Junk Fax Ruling...more

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From a Deference Dimension: Breaking Down the Supreme Court’s Grant of Certiorari to Consider Whether the Hobbs Act Requires...

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As reported earlier today, the Supreme Court granted the Petition for Certiorari in PDR Network, LLC v. Carlton & Harris Chiropractic, Inc., No. 17-1705, 2018 WL 3127423 (U.S. Nov. 13, 2018) to consider the following legal...more

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Coming Up Short: Court Denies Summary Judgment on ATDS use in TCPA Class Action Due to Evidentiary Shortcomings

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A magistrate judge in the Southern District of Florida has recommended that the Defendant’s motion for summary judgment based upon ATDS use be denied. Fortunately, this isn’t a Marks effect case. In fact, the legal definition...more

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Behind the Faxes: Sixth Circuit Holds That Plaintiff in TCPA Junk Fax Class Action Adequately Pled That Informational Fax Violated...

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Late last week, the Sixth Circuit held that a plaintiff in a junk fax class action alleged sufficient facts to establish that a fax – which was seemingly informational on its face – was nonetheless an “unsolicited...more

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Retail Industry Leaders Association Urges the FCC to Address Key TCPA Issues

• Companies across industries continue to face TCPA litigation and address compliance challenges. • The FCC will soon be addressing key TCPA issues in the wake of the D.C. Circuit’s ruling in ACA International. • One...more

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A Primary Jurisdiction Nightcap: Primary Jurisdiction Also Applies to Fact-Specific Statutory Interpretation

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As you all know, the primary jurisdiction doctrine and its importance as a defendant’s potentially crucial companion on a journey through TCPAland has been covered here before, but that importance was again on full display in...more

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A Bridge to Somewhere: Primary Jurisdiction Doctrine Applicable in TCPA Fax Cases and ATDS Suits Alike

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The primary jurisdiction doctrine Eric wrote about a mere few weeks ago was on full display in a recent ruling granting a motion to stay in a junk-fax TCPA class action. In Scoma Chiropractic, P.A., et al v. Dental...more

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