Telecommunications, Statutory Interpretation, Rulemaking Process

TCPA Quiet Hours Telemarketing and Consent

Klein Moynihan Turco LLP on 7/10/2025

Does prior express written consent permit calls/texts to consumers during the Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC”) proscribed quiet hours? As our readers know, the FCC is now considering this very issue insofar as it...more

Dear Public, What Should We DELETE, DELETE, DELETE? Best Regards, the FCC.

BCLP on 3/18/2025

On March 12, 2025, Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) chair, Brendan Carr, opened a new docket titled In Re: Delete, Delete, Delete (the “Notice”), asking for the public’s help in identifying “unnecessary” FCC rules,...more

Eleventh Circuit Strikes Down FCC Order Interpreting the TCPA

Cozen O'Connor on 2/13/2025

On January 24, the Eleventh Circuit issued a decision clarifying the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) limited authority to expand businesses’ obligations under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). This...more

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

Husch Blackwell LLP on 1/28/2025

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

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

Burr & Forman on 1/28/2020

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

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

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 10/16/2018

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

“Potential” TCPA Disaster: Does Marks Re-Introduce the Phantom of Potential Capacity to the TCPA’s ATDS Definition?

Womble Bond Dickinson on 10/5/2018

As we get near Halloween, how about a quick tale of a phantom lurking in our halls? Amidst all of the hubbub surrounding the big Marks opinion a couple weeks back–including the FCC’s decision to re-open the comment period...more

Where to Next? ACA International Decision Prompts FCC Request for Comment on Interpretation and Implementation of the TCPA

Womble Bond Dickinson on 5/17/2018

Comment Date: June 13, 2018 - Reply Comment Date: June 28, 2018 - As we told you in this week’s flash breaking news, less than a week after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its mandate following the ACA Int’l...more

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