Telecommunications, Statutory Interpretation, Debt Collection

GAME CHANGER: After McLaughlin, Can Businesses Continue to Rely on the Rule that they have Express Consent Anytime a Consumer...

Troutman Amin LLP on 6/30/2025

Happy Monday everyone! The Baroness here. Lets talk about something important. If you haven’t read the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent opinion in McLaughlin Chriopractric v. McKesson, you may want to do so now. It’s a very very...more

DeSantis signs bill allowing debt collection emails between 9 p.m. and 8 a.m.

Ballard Spahr LLP on 6/3/2025

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed legislation making it clear that debt collection emails sent between 9 p.m. and 8 a.m. do not violate Florida law....more

Sixth Circuit widens circuit split over TCPA autodialer definition

Ballard Spahr LLP on 8/5/2020

In Allan v. Pa. Higher Educ. Assistance Agency, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (TCPA) statutory definition of an automatic telephone dialing system (“ATDS”)...more

Eleventh Circuit Endorses Narrow Definition of TCPA Autodialer Creating Circuit Split

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 2/5/2020

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

Supreme Court Agrees To Review The Constitutionality of the TCPA

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 1/13/2020

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

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

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 11/15/2019

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

Ninth Circuit Dials Back Robocall Exemption for Government Debt

Carlton Fields on 6/27/2019

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) has long banned certain people from spamming your cellphone with “robocalls” placed through automated dialers. But this ban did not extend to all types of robocalls. If the call...more

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