TCPA

A District Court judge in New York has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was sued for violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act for allegedly placing more than 200 calls to try and collect on a …

Consumers appear to have a lot less to be upset about these days, at least as it relates to companies in the accounts receivable management industry. The number of lawsuits alleging violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act continue …

Nearly two years after it issued its opinion, the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has denied an en banc rehearing request in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act case against a debt collector, but four of the 11 judges felt strongly enough about the merits that they wrote a …

The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has vacated a lower court’s approval of class certification in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act case, ruling that some of the named plaintiffs in the class did not have standing to sue in federal court. A copy of the ruling in the …

A bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives that seeks to amend the Telephone Consumer Protection Act in order to expand the definition of “automated telephone dialing system” while also expanding the provisions of the law to include text messages as well as phone calls. A copy of …

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s ruling in favor of a defendant in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act case involving an automated telephone dialing system. That sentence alone should make you want to read the rest of the article. But it’s the next sentence that …

The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s ruling that an individual’s text messages sent to a financial institution constitute providing expressed consent to be contacted on a mobile phone via an automated telephone dialing system under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, but that the …

A District Court judge in Washington has granted a plaintiff’s motion to certify a class action against a debt collector accused of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by obtaining the plaintiff’s cell phone number via a skiptracing service and contacting the plaintiff without first obtaining consent to do so, …

The number of lawsuits alleging violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act all increased in March, compared with a month earlier, each growing by more than double-digit percentages, according to data released by WebRecon. The number of FCRA lawsuits …

The chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission is calling on Congress to help amend the definition of an automated telephone dialing system because the Supreme Court’s decision in Facebook v. Duguid “could lead to less consumer protection from robocalls,” she wrote in a letter responding to a request from Rep. …