Ad Law Tool Kit Show – Episode 12 – Telemarketing and Texting
A Conversation with NAAG President and Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller - Regulatory Oversight Podcast
CF on Cyber: An Update on the Changes to the Florida Telemarketing Act
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - Telecommunication Consumer Protection Act (TCPA): Update and Practical Guidance
Robocall Update: New Call Authentication Order and Obligations, Explained
The TCPA: Basics, Targeted Industries, and Trends
On May 13, 2024, in Drazen v. GoDaddy.com, LLC, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued a scathing, 123-page decision reversing a district court’s approval of a class-action settlement in...more
On August 8, a unanimous panel of the Ninth Circuit issued a decision affirming a district court’s partial dismissal judgment entered in Trim v. Reward Zone USA LLC, holding that text messages did not use prerecorded voices...more
On November 21, 2022, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a Declaratory Ruling and Order (Declaratory Ruling), in which it determined that “ringless voicemail” to wireless phones requires prior consumer...more
An April Supreme Court ruling significantly reduced the scope of communications platforms that could be considered autodialers subject to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The decision in Facebook, Inc. v....more
Enacted in 1991 to stem the tide of telemarketing calls, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) restricts “the making of telemarketing calls and the use of automatic telephone dialing systems and artificial or...more
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
On November 15, the Eleventh Circuit decided Cordoba v. DirecTV, LLC, further exploring the issue of when class actions achieve Article III standing. The plaintiffs alleged that DirecTV and the company with which it...more
As Americans increasingly rely on text messages to communicate on a daily basis, marketers have taken note, and text advertising and marketing is increasingly common. Indeed, text messages have a read rate of about 98%, and...more
Over the last three years alone, energy, utility and solar companies have been targeted in numerous putative class actions alleging violations of the TCPA that resulted in several multimillion-dollar settlements totaling more...more
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
The District of Oregon recently denied a motion for treble damages following a jury verdict finding that defendant made over 1.8 million advertising calls to the named plaintiff and other members of a certified class....more
Another day, another 7 figure TCPA settlement. Today’s settlement approval comes to us from the Eastern District of Michican where a local furniture store saw its 2016 telemarketing effort turn into a multi-million dollar...more
• 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
Yesterday, a class action was filed against the ride-sharing company Lyft for text messages it sent through its “Concierge” program in an alleged attempt to gain more ridership. Lyft Concierge is a program which allows...more
Outside of the fax context, the chances of certifying a TCPA case have turned almost exclusively on whether class member phone numbers all derived from a “single source” or from multiple different sources. This fact seems to...more
Companies that market products through third-party agents or distributors face a particular risk under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) when their agents call, text or fax consumers without obtaining the necessary...more
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
TCPA filings are down significantly YTD for the second year in a row. So why doesn’t it feel that way? Read on to learn our theory below. ...more
Earlier this month, the Second Circuit ruled that Mount Sinai Health System did not violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) when it sent automated flu shot text message reminders to patients. The three-judge...more
A new study has found that litigation involving the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) has increased 50 percent since the Federal Communications Commission released its July 2015 “Omnibus” Declaratory Ruling and...more
Two recent judgements against Dish Network LLC (“Dish”) for violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and similar state and federal laws demonstrate the significant liability companies may face based on the...more
In an outright win for pharmacies, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, in the attached opinion, granted Rite Aid’s motion for summary judgment in a class action alleging violations of the TCPA....more
Utility companies continue to face ongoing litigation under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) that can arise from the use of automated communications with customers for purposes of marketing, customer servicing and...more
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
After FCC Citation for TCPA Violations, Lyft Changes Terms of Service - Less than a week after the Federal Communications Commission cited Lyft for violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by requiring customers...more