TCPA

A pair of defendants accused of contacting a professional plaintiff in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act have had rulings issued in different lawsuits by District Court judges in Pennsylvania. A copy of the ruling in Shelton v. National Gas & Electric can be accessed by clicking here, and …

After agreeing to stay the proceedings in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act case pending the outcome of Marks v. Crunch San Diego in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a District Court judge in Nevada has denied a request from the defendant for a second stay pending the release of …

Companies collecting debts “make an enormous number” of robocalls and many of those callers are “repeatedly and flagrantly” violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, “paying off consumers” when they are sued and “then continuing their patterns of calling,” claimed Margot Saunders, the senior counsel of the National Consumer Law Center, …

More than three-quarters of telemarketing companies admit to not being fully compliant with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, according to the results of a survey conducted by a compliance monitoring service, and more than half of all companies make calls after 9pm. Only 23% of the companies that participated in …

A District Court judge in California has certified a class-action lawsuit, alleging a creditor violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act when collection agencies working on its behalf made calls to the cell phones of individuals using an automated telephone dialing system without first obtaining the proper consent to do so …

A District Court judge in Illinois has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment that it used an automated telephone dialing system to send text messages to an individual’s cell phone without his expressed consent. A copy of the ruling in Gadelhak v. AT&T Services, Inc., can be accessed by …

A District Court judge in Florida has granted a defendant’s motion to stay a case and placed it in civil suspense in order to await a rule from the Federal Communications Commission related to how an automated telephone dialing system is to be defined under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. …

In a case that is now making the rounds in the mainstream media, a Tennessee woman has been awarded $459,000 by an arbitrator after receiving 306 collection calls to her cell phone from a retail company using an automatic telephone dialing system after she revoked consent to be contacted. The …

The Federal Communications Commission is not a good collection agency, it appears. Maybe it needs some help from agencies in the credit and collection business. Despite levying more than $200 million in fines against individuals and entities for making illegal robocalls in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the …

A District Court judge in Florida has granted in part and denied in part a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed against a company accusing it of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by using a ringless voicemail platform from Stratics Networks to leave telemarketing-related voicemails on the cell phones …