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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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AAA Updates Consumer Arbitration Rules: What Businesses Need to Know

The American Arbitration Association (AAA) recently rolled out significant updates to its Consumer Arbitration Rules and Mediation Procedures, which took effect on May 1, 2025. These changes reflect AAA’s continued commitment...more

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Is Your Company Vulnerable to a Mass Arbitration Attack? What It is and How to Prevent It

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A recent trend in litigation has emerged that is causing companies to re-think conventional wisdom. Until now, it has been a widely adopted best practice for retailers and other consumer-facing companies to include mandatory...more

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DCD Compels Arbitration for TCPA Class Action Despite Being Non-Signatory to Agreement

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The District of Massachusetts’s recent decision in Fairfield v. DCD Auto. Holdings, Inc., No. 22-cv-11977, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 109463 (D. Mass. June 26, 2023) serves as a key reminder for businesses not only to have...more

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Does A Consumer Arbitration Agreement Apply To A Company’s Future Affiliates? The Ninth And Fourth Circuits Disagree

If a company enters an arbitration agreement with a consumer, can its future affiliate companies enforce the arbitration agreement even though the affiliate relationship did not exist at the time the consumer signed the...more

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Let Me Introduce My Affiliate: Fourth Circuit Enforces Arbitration Agreement on Motion by Affiliate, DirecTV, of Original Party to...

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On August 7, 2020, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals confronted the question whether this class action lawsuit against, inter alia, DirecTV was covered by an arbitration agreement in the contract governing plaintiff Diana...more

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Eleventh Circuit Holds Consent in Bargained-For Contract Cannot Be Unilaterally Revoked

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Medley v. Dish Network, LLC, No. 8:16-cv-02534-CEH-CPT (11th Cir. May 1, 2020). Plaintiff entered into a contract, providing her cell phone number and expressly authorizing Defendant “to contact [her] regarding [her] DISH...more

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Eleventh Circuit holds TCPA does not permit unilateral revocation of contractual consent

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held last week, in Medley v. DISH Network, LLC, that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) does not allow a consumer to unilaterally revoke consent to receive...more

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2019 Year in Review for Financial Services Class Actions

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Focus areas included FCRA, Fair Lending, ancillary fees and services (such as lender placed flood insurance), TCPA, privacy and data security and other topics. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Director Kathleen...more

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Court enforces Arbitration Clause in Clickwrap Agreement of “Ganjapreneur” App

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A California Court granted Defendant’s motion to compel arbitration based on a duly formed and consented arbitration clause via a “clickwrap” agreement, despite Plaintiff’s argument that no contract was ever formed because...more

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FTC Takes Aim at Two More (Alleged) CRFA Violators - Commission claims real estate contracts tried to mum consumers - And You Thought the Beat Slowed Down? In a story from about a month ago, we wrote that the Federal...more

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California Federal Court Enforces Arbitration Provision in Uber Agreements

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A class action alleging unsolicited text messages received from Uber violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and California competition law was sent to arbitration by a California federal court based upon an...more

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First Court Within Ninth Circuit Declines to Follow Reyes and Finds that Consent Can Be Revoked Under the TCPA

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As all of us TCPA enthusiasts know, a cornerstone issue in many TCPA cases is whether plaintiff has provided consent to be contacted and whether that consent can be revoked. According to the Second Circuit’s decision in Reyes...more

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You Can’t Be Serious: TCPA Data Transfer to Defense Expert Lands DirectTV in Unshakable Privacy Class Action

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Data privacy and protection concerns permeate TCPA class actions as consumer lawyers have become increasingly bold about demanding huge sets of private financial records and data from defendants. These demands risk the...more

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And Another One: The District Court of Arizona Applies Marks to Grant Defendant’s Summary Judgment on TCPA Claim

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The District Court of Arizona recently issued the first post-Marks MSJ ruling in favor of defendant, applying Marks. In Shupe v. Capital One Bank, Plaintiffs brought claims for a violation of the TCPA and a violation of the...more

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Big TCPA Day Continues: Ninth Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment in Favor of Defendant Where Plaintiff’s Revocation Testimony...

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Probably the single most common factual scenario we see in TCPA cases is the he-says/records-say revocation suit. The Plaintiff swears that he or she revoked consent. The business–which keeps great records and has bulletproof...more

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TCPA Class Action Update – Trending: Courts Holding Plaintiffs to Their Word

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In mid-2017, the Second Circuit concluded consent to receive calls is unilaterally irrevocable so long as it is a contract term. Whereas prior decisions considered “a narrow question: whether the [Telephone Consumer...more

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Illinois District Court Finds that Uber’s Arbitration Agreement is Enforceable in a Putative Class Action and Dismisses Class...

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In Johnson v. Uber Technologies, Inc., 2018 WL 4503938 (Sept. 20, 2018), the United States District Court in the Northern District of Illinois granted summary judgment in favor of Uber Technologies, Inc. (“Uber”), dismissing...more

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You Have the Right to Defend Your Business Model: Court Allows Online Lead Generator to Intervene in Putative TCPA Class Action

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Online lead generation is huge business, and present across all manner of consumer industries including lending, home services, insurance, healthcare – you name it. By the time these leads reach the caller, a consumer will...more

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Either “Called Party” Will Do: Consent from Subscriber Husband Defeats Wife’s TCPA Claim Even Though She Was the Customary User of...

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Its a factual scenario that arises far more than it should. A customer provides a cell phone number to a business, consenting to receive phone calls in the process. Phone calls are placed to that customer at that number. But...more

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District Court Holds Revocation of Consent Ineffective in the Face of Contractual Consent

Relying upon basic principles of contract law, an Alabama district court has held that there are limitations to revocation of prior express consent. In Few v. Receivables Performance Management, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 134324...more

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Middle District of Florida Holds Contractual Consent Cannot Be Unilaterally Revoked

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Medley v. Dish Network, LLC, Case No. 8:16-cv-3534-36TBM, 2018 WL 4092120 (M.D. Fla. Aug. 27, 2018) - Joining a host of courts across the county, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida recently ruled...more

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Pride Goeth Before the Fall: DirecTV Effort to Leverage Wireless Market Leads Following AT&T Merger Leads to Unshakable TCPA Class...

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Business lines are always looking to expand their pool of leads through cross-marketing efforts, especially following a corporate merger. But as a new decision out of the Northern District of California proves, it is...more

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TCPA Consent Medley: Third New Decision Enforcing TCPA Consent Provision in Consumer Agreement Has “Robocallers” Humming

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After a long period of quiet on the issue, TCPAland has seen three swift decisions on good-Reyes (Reyes v. Lincoln Auto. Fin. Servs., 861 F.3d 51 (2d Cir. 2017), as amended (Aug. 21, 2017)) all aligning to enforce contractual...more

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District Court of Connecticut Follows Reyes Decision

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In Harris v. Navient Solutions, LLC, No. 3:15-cv-564 (RNC), 2018 WL 3748155 (D. Conn. Aug. 7, 2018), the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut followed the Second Circuit’s decision in Reyes v. Lincoln...more

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Breakthrough: First District Court in Eleventh Circuit Follows Reyes and Holds Contractual TCPA Consent Cannot Be Revoked

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What a day for contractual consent provisions! Just hours after the Czar wrote about a positive development around “Good Reyes” (Reyes v. Lincoln Auto. Fin. Servs., 861 F.3d 51 (2d Cir. 2017), as amended (Aug. 21, 2017)) came...more

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