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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. …

Selfishly, I will admit that I originally wanted to write about this case only because it gave me the opportunity to mention the name of the defendant — La Boom Disco. But, having read a ruling from Judge Allyne Ross of the District Court for the Eastern District of New …

The Supreme Court has granted a request from the Solicitor General’s office to participate in oral arguments later this month when it hears a Telephone Consumer Protection Act case that seeks to answer whether courts have a requirement to accept how a regulator interprets a statute. Arguments in the case …

A plaintiff in Florida has filed a lawsuit alleging a creditor violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by using an automatic telephone dialing system to make more than two hundred calls to an individual’s cell phone number in an attempt to collect on a debt without obtaining the proper consent …

The content of a text message sent to an individual and ensuring the proper consent was obtained before sending a message helped a company secure summary judgment after it was accused of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. The plaintiff has appealed the decision to the Ninth Circuit Court of …

Lawsuits against collection agencies alleging violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act were all up in January, compared with December 2018, but only the FCRA was up from the first month of last year, according to data released …