TCPA

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 …

A District Court judge in Illinois partially denied summary judgment against a defendant that is being sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by placing 20 calls during a two-month period in attempts to reach someone else. A copy of the ruling in the case go Gailya …

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 …