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Citigroup has successfully prevented a class of potential plaintiffs from being certified in a lawsuit filed against the bank for allegedly violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by contacting individuals using an automatic telephone dialing system without their expressed consent. The judge in the case also granted in part and …

While the shockwaves from last Thursday’s ruling in Marks v. Crunch San Diego are still rippling through the collections industry, more companies are now turning back around to face the horizon, wondering how the ruling will affect other cases in other regions of the country. The Ninth Circuit Court of …

Thursday’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act ruling in Marks v. Crunch San Diego is still reverberating through the collections industry as agency executives rush to figure out what is and what is not allowed, as it relates to using an automated telephone dialing system to contact individuals with unpaid debts. David …

The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has overturned a lower court’s ruling that had granted summary judgment in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act case regarding the definition of what constitutes an automated telephone dialing system. The ARM industry has been waiting for a ruling in Marks v. Crunch …

A federal judge in New York has denied a motion for summary judgment filed by a defendant in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act lawsuit, ruling that the claim survives the death of the plaintiff and that the defendant’s knowledge of the plaintiff’s diagnosis of terminal cancer potentially caused an intentional infliction …

Except when you’re on the receiving end of it, judges can be kind of funny. Take Judge Kevin McNulty of the District Court for the District of New Jersey, who recently denied a motion to strike a complaint and for sanctions against a plaintiff who filed a class-action lawsuit alleging …

A defendant has had a motion for summary judgment granted in a lawsuit in which it was alleged to have violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by not ceasing to contact an individual, because the complaint did not provide enough evidence that an automated telephone dialing system was used to …

If this keeps up, the collections industry might need to find something else to complain about. The number of lawsuits filed by individuals against collection agencies, alleging violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act decreased again in July, …

The American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management is renewing its push to get the Federal Communications Commission to grant a petition that was filed more than two years ago to update the Telephone Consumer Protection Act to widen the types of companies that are covered under the law. A copy of …

Fighting lawsuits alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act continues to be an uphill climb, even though the total number of lawsuits is declining, said a panel of experts who spoke on a webinar on the topic last week. The webinar, which was sponsored by TCN, aimed to help …