FCC, Robocalling, Corporate Counsel

TCPA Compliance: Is the Upcoming Opt-Out Rule a Major Game Changer?

Amundsen Davis LLC on 3/31/2025

On April 11, 2025, there will be a new Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) revocation rule for unwanted robocalls and robotexts. This Opt-Out Rule, adopted in February 2024 by the Federal Communications Commissions...more

Eleventh Circuit Vacates FCC’s TCPA One-to-One Consent Rule on Eve of Effective Date

Pierce Atwood LLP on 1/30/2025

On Friday, January 24, 2025, just one business day before it was to take effect on January 27, the Eleventh Circuit vacated the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) One-to-One Consent Rule that was adopted as an...more

New Robotext and Robocall Rules Coming Online in 2025: What Your Business Needs to Know to Comply

Fisher Phillips on 11/22/2024

Businesses that use robocalls or robotexts for marketing purposes will soon need to adjust to new rules that take effect in early 2025. The Federal Communications Commission made several changes to rules under the Telephone...more

New FCC rule on TCPA consent for advertising and telemarketing calls and texts will significantly impact callers who obtain...

Ballard Spahr LLP on 12/15/2023

By a vote of 4-1, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) adopted a new rule amending its regulations implementing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) to close what it refers to as the “lead generator loophole.” ...more

FCC Declares Ringless Voicemails Are Subject to TCPA’s Robocall Restrictions

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 12/2/2022

In a recently issued ruling, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) declared that “ringless voicemails” are “calls” subject to the requirements of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Ringless voicemail...more

Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force Targets Facilitators of Foreign Illegal Robocalls

Troutman Pepper Locke on 8/8/2022

Escalating efforts to crack down on illegal robocalls, state attorneys general announced on August 2 that they have established a nationwide Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force. The task force comprises attorneys general from...more

The Evolving Telephone Consumer Protection Act Landscape Post-Duguid

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 4/29/2022

Key Points Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) litigation continues to pose significant risks to businesses that use calls, texts and faxes to engage with consumers. The U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in...more

TCPA FCC Petitions Tracker - September 2021

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 10/1/2021

Kelley Drye’s Communications Practice Group presents this tracker of active Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) petitions before the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”). With the recent increase in litigation...more

FCC TCPA Actions Mid-Year Review

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 8/12/2021

After adopting orders reflecting the majority of implementation deadlines set by the TRACED Act and the Supreme Court’s highly anticipated TCPA decision interpreting the statutory definition of automatic telephone dialing...more

Ringless Voicemail Compliance: 2021 Forecast (You’re Going to Get Sued For Using It)

Benesch on 2/25/2021

Ringless Voicemail (“RVM”) technology provides companies the ability to reach a massive amount of people with low cost by avoiding typical telephony charges. RVM works by sending a voicemail message via server-to-server...more

District Court Dismisses Ex-Attorney and TCPA Serial Litigant’s Claims with Prejudice

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 1/19/2021

On January 6, 2021, the District of Maryland dismissed a TCPA claim (and a derivative claim under Maryland’s MDTPCA) against Discount Power, Inc. (“Discount”). See Worsham v. Discount Power, Inc., No. 20-0008, 2021 WL 50922...more

Dialing In: TCPA Top 5 Issues for 2021

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 1/13/2021

Will anything stop the continuing barrage of class action lawsuits under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)? In 2020, TCPA lawsuits remained one of the most commonly-filed type of class action in federal courts...more

The FCC Reverses Course—Finds Government Contractors Subject to the TCPA

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck on 12/16/2020

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) bars certain types of automated calls without first obtaining the consent of the called party. Indeed, with uncapped statutory damages, the TCPA is a staple of the plaintiff’s bar,...more

Sixth Circuit Holds That Stored-Number Systems Meet the TCPA’s Definition of an Autodialer, Deepening Circuit Split to be...

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 8/5/2020

It has been more than two years since the D.C. Circuit found the Federal Communications Commission’s (the “FCC”) discussion of predictive dialers and other equipment alleged to be an automatic telephone dialing system...more

Circuit Split Created as Eleventh and Seventh Circuits Narrowly Interpret Definition of Auto-Dialer Under the TCPA

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP on 2/27/2020

We now have a split among federal circuits regarding the definition of an automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS), under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), which limits automated calls and text messages. What...more

Two More Significant Rulings For TCPA Litigation – Eleventh And Seventh Circuits Narrowly Interpret ATDS

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 2/24/2020

In back-to-back decisions bound to have significant impact on Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class action litigation, the Eleventh and Seventh Circuit Courts recently reached similar conclusions, narrowly holding...more

Eleventh Circuit Holds an ATDS Must Have Capacity to Randomly or Sequentially Generate Numbers

Womble Bond Dickinson on 1/29/2020

The Eleventh Circuit has spoken on the interpretation of the automatic telephone dialing system (“ATDS”) definition, and held that to qualify as an ATDS a device must have the capacity to randomly or sequentially generate...more

Glasser v. Hilton: Citing Principles of Statutory Interpretation, the Eleventh Circuit Drastically Reduces the Scope of TCPA

Burr & Forman on 1/28/2020

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA” or the “Act”) has limited telephone calls that can be placed using certain automated equipment since 1991. However, since passage of the Act there has been considerable debate...more

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