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The Telephone Consumer Protection Act will be front-and-center before the Supreme Court today, but only as a pawn in a more existential discussion about whether courts have a requirement to accept how a regulator interprets a statute. PDR Network v. Carlton & Harris Chiropractic will be argued before the Supreme …

The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday overruled a lower court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant after it was accused of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act because debt collectors hired by a company it had placed the accounts with attempted to contact …

A District Court judge in Ohio has granted default judgment in favor of the plaintiff and awarded $23,000 in damages and attorney’s fees after a collection agency was accused of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and Telephone Consumer Protection Act, but did not answer a complaint, the application …

A proposed settlement has been reached in a case in which the financing unit of Nissan Motors was accused of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by calling the cell phones of individuals who did not have accounts with the creditor using an automatic telephone dialing system without first obtaining …

A collection agency has had a motion for summary judgment granted in part and denied in part after it was accused of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by allegedly calling an individual 297 times in 150 days and sending a collection letter …

It is impossible to determine a class of wrong-number recipients to debt collection calls because doing so requires an account-by-account review of each alleged wrong number call, according to a motion filed by Citibank, which is facing a Telephone Consumer Protection Act lawsuit for allegedly calling an individual’s cell phone …

Eric Troutman of TCPAWorld.com has a great takedown of John Oliver’s segment on robocalls that aired this past Sunday, including debunking Oliver’s claim that the ruling in ACA International v. Federal Communications Commission is the reason why robocall volume has exploded. Troutman called that part of the segment the “worst …

A District Court judge in California has denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was sued for allegedly violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by making one call — which was not answered — to a plaintiff’s cell phone. A copy of the ruling in Shuckett v. DialAmerica can …

The bandwagon in support of the Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act, or TRACED Act, is getting pretty full. Already loaded down with 54 different attorneys general at the state and territory level, as well as an armful of consumer advocates, and all of the commissioners of the …

A defendant has been granted a motion to dismiss after it was sued by a plaintiff for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by calling him after he had revoked consent to be contacted. A copy of the ruling in Ford v. …