Said it before. Will say it again– the rule of personal liability for TCPA violations undertaken for an employer is the most unfair in all of American jurisprudence. Take the case of Matthews v. Senior Life Insurance Co., 2025…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Insurance, Privacy
A window washing company in Chicago is caught in a TCPA class action arising out of their apparent use of prerecorded calls to contact consumers. In Bulgart v. Prime Time Window Cleaning, 2025 WL 1899536 (N.D. Ill. July 9, 2025)…
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/ Civil Procedure, Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy
Au Fond. Do you folks know this lovely phrase? Here I–Mr. Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate memorizer– thought I knew it all. And yet the Czar just learned something mysterious and lovely that has…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy
Real quick one for the TCPA super nerds. You’ll recall way back in April 2020 the world was melting down. No, I’m not talking about COVID. I am talking about ATDS cases. Perhaps the high-water mark of TCPAWorld ATDS chaos struck…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy
Repeat after me: Hire Big Law. Expect a Big Loss. At least in TCPAWorld. Here is ANOTHER example. In Duke v. American Express, 2025 WL 1918643 (D. Az. July 12, 2025) American Express was just needlessly required to produce a…
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/ Civil Procedure, Communications & Media Law, Electronic Discovery, Privacy
I remember when default judgments in TCPA cases were for like $4,500.00. Then guys started hitting the mid-five figures. But now recoveries in the six figures on a default basis is becoming pretty standard. The truth is the pro…
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/ Civil Remedies, Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy
Received an email from Andrew Perrong this morning entitled: “Prepare for the onslaught of 64.1601 claims.” He wasn’t kidding. This is a complete disaster. In Newell v. JR Capital, 2:25-cv-01419-GAM (E.D. Pa. July 16, 2025) the…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy
Good lord another one? I can’t keep up with all the #biglaw losses. I mean, when was the last time ANY #biglaw firm won ANTHING in a TCPA case? My goodness. What a disaster. Here’s another one. In Bond v. Folsom Insurance…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Electronic Discovery, Privacy
In McLaughlin Chiropractic Assocs., Inc. v. McKesson Corp., No. 23-1226, 2025 WL 1716136 (U.S. June 20, 2025), the Supreme Court determined that the Hobbs Act does not bind district courts in civil enforcement proceedings to…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Privacy
I’ll keep this short and sweet. The Supreme Court’s decision in McLaughlin Chiropractic v. McKesson has undeniably altered how the Telephone Consumer Protection Act will be enforced. But for companies using artificial…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
The TCPA landscape is being reshaped in real time and we’re here to bear witness. With the Supreme Court’s decision in McLaughlin Chiropractic Assocs. v. McKesson Corp., No. 23-1226, 2025 U.S. LEXIS 2385 (June 20, 2025), the…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy
Greetings TCPAWorld! When you thought you’d seen it all… think again. Here at TCPAWorld, we are the first in everything. The Supreme Court dropped another surprise that’s about to turn everything upside down again. See…
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/ Administrative Law, Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Happy Monday everyone! The Baroness here. Lets talk about something important. If you haven’t read the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent opinion in McLaughlin Chriopractric v. McKesson, you may want to do so now. It’s a very very…
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/ Administrative Law, Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy
As TCPAWorld.com readers know, 2025 has seen a massive rush of TCPA class litigation. Indeed such filings are up over 100 percent from last year– which was already the highest volume year in history. The biggest volume of TCPA…
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/ Administrative Law, Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy
Supreme Court just handed down the widely-watched decision in McLaughlin Chriopractric v. McKesson. Held: The Hobbs Act does not bind district courts in civil enforcement proceedings to an agency’s interpretation of a statute…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy
