TCPA

In a case that was first reported by Eric Troutman at TCPAWorld.com, a District Court judge in Texas has dismissed claims that a collector violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by making one unanswered phone call to the plaintiff’s cell phone, but denied a motion to dismiss for lack …

As first noted by Eric Troutman at TCPAWorld.com, the federal government, in a brief filed Friday with the Supreme Court, thinks that the definition of an automated telephone dialing system starts and ends with technology that has the capacity to use a random or sequential number generator to store or …

Only in 2020 would the number of lawsuits filed against collection agencies claiming violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act be both up and down, according to data published yesterday by WebRecon. When comparing the totals from July …

A District Court judge in Kansas has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act case, becoming the latest to wade in and choose sides on how an automated telephone dialing system is defined. A copy of the ruling in the case of Hampton v. …

A District Court judge in Washington has denied a defendant’s request to stay its Telephone Consumer Protection Act case until the Supreme Court rules in Facebook v. Duguid, ruling that it is more “desirable” to try and proceed with discovery than it would be to wait. A copy of the …

In a case that was first reported by Eric Troutman at TCPAWorld, a District Court judge in Nevada has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act case in which a former debt collector purchased a prepaid cell phone for the purpose of suing companies …

A company that specializes in helping companies avoid being sued for allegedly violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act has been leaking the phone numbers, email addresses, and passwords of its customers and the contact information for individuals who have hired lawyers to sue for TCPA violations, according to a published …

A District Court judge in New York has affirmed rulings from both an arbitrator and a Magistrate Judge and awarded a plaintiff who received 466 collection calls from the defendant without providing her expressed consent $232,500 in damages. A copy of the ruling in the case of Salerno v. Credit …

Add the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to the list of Circuits in which the definition of an automatic telephone dialing system is not ARM-industry friendly, putting that team ahead 3-2 heading into the final rounds of a fight which will ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court. …

A number of consumer advocacy groups have asked the Federal Communications Commission to re-think a Declaratory Ruling related to interpreting how peer-to-peer messages are defined under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. Last month, the FCC ruled that a calling platform does not meet the definition of autodialer under the TCPA …