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The United States Federal Communications Commission is an independent federal agency established by the Communications Act of 1934. The Commission is charged with regulating interstate and international... more +

THE DEATH OF PRESUMPTION: Are Cell Phones Still “Residential” Post McLaughlin?

Troutman Amin LLP on 6/30/2025

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...more

TEXTS AREN’T CALLS!: State Appellate Court Holds Text Messages Are Not Telephone Calls Were Purposes of Criminal Statute

Troutman Amin LLP on 6/18/2025

Since 2009 Courts have been applying FCC rulings suggesting that text messages are calls subject to the TCPA even though text messages didn’t exist at the time the TCPA was passed and the statute does not mention text...more

Eleventh Cir. Rejects Broad Reading of “Autodialer”

Hogan Lovells on 1/31/2020

On January 27, 2020, an Eleventh Circuit panel released a landmark ruling in Glasser v. Hilton Grand Vacations Company, LLC. The key issue in the case was how to interpret ambiguous language in the Telephone Consumer...more

First-in-the-Nation TCPA Result: Court Holds Direct Dropped Voicemails are Covered by the TCPA

Womble Bond Dickinson on 7/19/2018

Despite Jay Edelson’s pronouncement this week that there is no new ground to till in TCPAland, a court this week just issued yet another first-in-the-nation ruling and it could have a big impact on users of so-called “direct...more

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THE DEATH OF PRESUMPTION: Are Cell Phones Still “Residential” Post McLaughlin?

TEXTS AREN’T CALLS!: State Appellate Court Holds Text Messages Are Not Telephone Calls Were Purposes of Criminal Statute

Eleventh Cir. Rejects Broad Reading of “Autodialer”

First-in-the-Nation TCPA Result: Court Holds Direct Dropped Voicemails are Covered by the TCPA

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