08.05.19
Over a year after the ACA International (ACA) decision from the D.C. Circuit that changed the face of litigation in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) world by striking down the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC’s) 2015 automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS) guidance, ...
07.17.19
Conservative activist Dr. James R. Leininger, through an entity he owned, helped finance a film called Last Ounce of Courage.
06.24.19
A California federal court judge refused to certify a class of plaintiffs in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) lawsuit against Citibank, determining that individualized issues of consent would predominate in a case where the class definition excluded the plaintiff himself.
Anti-robocall legislation continues to move forward at both the federal and state levels, with the TRACED Act easing through the U.S. Senate by an overwhelming majority and a similar bill making its way through the California Legislature.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) put an end to the litigation in the “Pointbreak Media” robocall case, an action filed by the agency in 2018 against multiple individual and corporate defendants that operated a telemarketing scam.
A Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) plaintiff managed to survive the defendant’s motion to dismiss after the court found sufficient factual allegations in the complaint that the defendant used an automated telephone dialing system (ATDS).
Adding more fuel to an already raging fire, the Ninth Circuit has weighed in on a case that has the potential to make its way to the U.S. Supreme Court and finally provide much-needed guidance on the controversial Marks case as well as the constitutionality of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ...
Well over a year has passed since the ACA International (ACA) decision from the D.C. Circuit changed the face of litigation in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) world by striking down the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) 2015 automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS) ...
05.22.19
In U.S. Supreme Court news, the justices heard oral argument in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act case with broad implications and denied certiorari in an appeal of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) stance that the use of soundboard technology constitutes a robocall.
A New York federal court has adopted the multifactor test favored by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth and Eleventh Circuits to determine whether a defendant is the “sender” of a fax for purposes of Telephone Consumer Protection Act liability.