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A student loan servicer has won summary judgment after it was accused of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by using an automated telephone dialing system to contact the plaintiff. A copy of the ruling in Collins v. National Student Loan Program can be accessed by clicking here. During the …

Two Senators and two members of the House of Representatives have sent a letter to Ajit Pai, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, urging the agency to no longer exempt companies collecting debts owed to or guaranteed by the federal government from complying with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. …

Aaron’s, a lease-to-own retail company, has had a class-action lawsuit filed against it for allegedly violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by contacting individuals believed to be debtors using an automated telephone dialing system. While a TCPA class-action in and of itself is not a man-bites-dog type of story, it …

Companion bills have been introduced in the House of Representatives and the Senate aimed at expanding the definition of automated telephone dialing systems to include platforms that make calls from numbers stored on a list, as well as those that use random or sequential number generators. Sen. Edward Markey [D-Mass.] …