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A federal judge in New Jersey last week denied motions to dismiss and applications for temporary stays pending new guidance from the Federal Communications Commission in a pair of lawsuits alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. Both cases involve class-action lawsuits filed against Freedom Mortgage Corp. In one …

A group of seven Republican Senators have written to Ajit Pai, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, urging the agency to keep a narrow definition of what constitutes an automated telephone dialing system as a means of adhering to Congress’s intent when it enacted the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. …

Claims under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act do, in fact, survive the death of a plaintiff, according to a ruling from the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which overturned a lower-court’s ruling in a class-action case. This is the first time that an Appeals Court has had to …

The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has upheld a lower court’s decision in reducing the fees awarded to plaintiffs’ attorneys in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act class-action lawsuit by nearly 70% because the court ruled the lawyers did not perform enough work to justify the higher fees. A …

It has nothing to do with the ARM industry and it was a fax that started what you’re about to read and not a phone call, but what a New Jersey business owner is going through offers a cautionary tale for anyone who is open to be sued for violating …

There is a lot of red in the monthly chart published by WebRecon highlighting the number of lawsuits filed against collection agencies alleging violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and the Fair Credit Reporting Act and also including data about the number of …

A pair of Senators continue to lobby the Federal Communications Commission to create a reassigned number database that would help prevent robocalls and unsolicited communications. Sen. Edward Markey [D-Mass.], and Sen. John Thune [R-S.D.] sent the letter to Ajit Pai, the chairman of the FCC, last week. Sen. Markey is …

In a case that was first reported by Eric Troutman at TCPAland, a District Court judge in Ohio on Friday granted a motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act after the plaintiffs received two unsolicited text messages on their mobile phones. The two …

A plaintiff has filed a lawsuit against Dish Network, alleging the company violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act when it made more than 300 collection-related calls to the plaintiff’s cell phone without her consent because the company was trying to reach someone else. On at least three occasions, according to …

An individual who received 11 debt collection calls from a cable company that was attempting to reach someone else either wants an automatic victory or to have the suit certified as a class action, according to a pair of filings that were made in the case last week. Joanne Knapper …