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FCC 'Deletes' TCPA Regulations Following Supreme Court and Eleventh Circuit Rulings

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In the last month, we have gained additional insight into the future of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) regulation and how class action litigation might be shaped by...more

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PRIME TIME: Wolf Destroys Window Cleaner’s Hopes of Quick TCPA Class Action Exit

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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,...more

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TREND: American Express DESTROYED by Discovery Order in TCPA Class Action As ANOTHER #BIGLAW Firm Fails

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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...more

Klein Moynihan Turco LLP

TCPA Compliance is Essential! Give Your Practices and Procedures a Facelift

On June 23, 2025, Nip & Tuck Plastic Surgery, LLC (“Defendant”) was sued in the Northern District of Georgia for allegedly violating the Do Not Call (“DNC”) provisions of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”). DNC...more

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SYSTEM REBOOT ON AUTODIALERS?: McLaughlin and the Future of TCPA Statutory Interpretation

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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...more

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WAVE OF LITIGATION ENDED?: Are the TCPA’s Quiet Hour Rules Dead After Friday’s Supreme Court Ruling?

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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...more

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McLaughlin v. McKesson: Rebalancing the Scales Between Agency and Judicial Interpretation of the TCPA

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On June 20, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court released a landmark opinion in McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc., v. McKesson Corp., further reshaping the scope of judicial review of agency action. ...more

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DEAR LORD: Nomorobo Just Sued Synchrony Under the TCPA For Calls to a Honeypot And This Could Be Enormous

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Honeypots. Tens (hundreds?) of thousands of phone numbers owned by a single corporate subscriber. They exist merely to monitor and track calling patterns. No one is using these phones. They are monitored autonomously for a...more

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TCPA INSURANCE TO THE RESCUE?: Small Debt Collector Walks Away From Class Suit For Under Policy Limits

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TCPA insurance used to be very difficult to come by but slowly carriers are starting to write policies to protect companies from TCPA liability. Most of the policies are low limit high deductible affairs– $1MM is the max that...more

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ITS HERE: The First of a Wave of New “Keyword Avoider” SMS Opt Out TCPA Class Actions Has Been Filed And TCPAWorld Will Never Be...

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An attorney named Jeff Lohman recently narrowly escaped a jury verdict against him on a RICO claim arising out of allegations he had manufactured TCPA claims by encouraging clients to use vague opt out language during phone...more

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TCPA CLASS ACTIONS CONTINUE TO SKYROCKET!!: TCPA Class Action Filings DOUBLE in April, 2025 And That’s Not All…

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Well as TCPAWorld.com readers know well the TCPA class actions continue to pour in. Previously we reported TCPA class action filings were up over 100% YoY through March, 2025....more

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PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE?: Vonage Failed to Honor DNC Requests in a Manner Leading to TCPA Class Action New Lawsuit Claims

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So I was reviewing a $90+MM telecommunications services contract for a major brand yesterday. $90MM folks. The money in this industry is insane. But so are the stakes. Fail to set up your system right and face a TCPA class...more

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Telephone and Texting Compliance News: Litigation Update — One-to-One Consent Eleventh Circuit Challenge Dead

One-to-One Consent 11th Circuit Challenge Dead - As we previously reported, after the Eleventh Circuit vacated the Federal Communications Commission’s much-anticipated one-to-one consent rule in Insurance Marketing...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

TCPA Tracker: February-March 2025

FCC Delays Effective Date for New TCPA Consent Revocation Rule - The FCC announced on April 7, 2025, that it was issuing a one-year delay on its latest TCPA implementing rule governing consent revocation, Section...more

Klein Moynihan Turco LLP

Autodialer TCPA Claim

Following the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Facebook v. Duguid, consumers alleging Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) claims against companies for using an automatic telephone dialing system (“ATDS”) are...more

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MoFo’s State + Local Government Enforcement Newsletter (December 2024)

Morrison Foerster’s State and Local Government Task Force is pleased to provide our bimonthly newsletter summarizing some of the most important and interesting developments from state attorneys general (State AGs) across the...more

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New York Federal Court Certifies TCPA Class Where Phone Numbers Were Obtained Through a Third-Party Website

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In Aley v. Lightfire Partners, LLC, a U.S. District Court in the Northern District of New York certified aa Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class action for all persons whose telephone numbers were on the National Do...more

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Speak for Yourself: Court Denies Class Certification in TCPA Case Based on Class Members’ Potentially Mixed Reactions to Ringless...

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On January 18, a court in the Eastern District of Wisconsin denied class certification in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) case concluding that the factual issue of whether the proposed class members had suffered an...more

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TCPA Turnstile: Scoping out the TCPA – 2023 Midyear Update (TCPA Case Update Vol. 18)

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Just over halfway through 2023, nationwide TCPA jurisprudence is focused on further delineating the scope of the TCPA. As the dust settles from earlier battles over defining ATDS requirements, the cases from this year are...more

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Ninth Circuit Remand of $925M TCPA Class Award Offers Possible Ceiling on Damages

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Allowable statutory damages under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) have a floor of $500 and, generally speaking, determining total damages is a simple math calculation. In the class action scenario, however, this...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The Ninth Circuit Further Narrows The Meaning Of ATDS Under The Telephone Consumer Protection Act

Among other things, the federal TCPA imposes liability for calling/texting cell phone numbers using an Automatic Telephone Dialing System (“ATDS”) without sufficient prior express consent. As defined by the TCPA, ATDS is...more

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AD-ttorneys@law - June 2022 #2

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No More Social Fix for Cali Kids? New state bill targets social media addiction - Vertigo 2.0 - There’s a tidal wave of anger against social media. And every time it seems to crest, another swell comes up from...more

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Court Denies GrubHub’s Motion to Dismiss in TCPA Class Action

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois denied a motion to dismiss a class action for allegations that GrubHub, Inc. violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The plaintiff alleged that she...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Federal Court Says Voice Service Providers "Mey" Face TCPA Liability for Facilitating Spoofed Robocalls, Denies Motion to Dismiss

When a dialing platform or voice service provider is sued under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), it often can successfully move to dismiss because it did not "make" the calls at issue or is immune from liability...more

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TCPA Class Actions – District Court Declares TCPA Robocalling Restriction Unconstitutional From 2015 to 2020

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Takeaway: Most commentators (including this one) interpreted the U.S. Supreme Court’s fractured plurality opinion in Barr v. Am. Ass’n of Political Consultants, Inc, 140 S. Ct. 2335, 2343 (2020) (“AAPC”), as invalidating the...more

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