FCC, Unsolicited Phone Calls, Telemarketing

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

Coalition of State Attorney Generals Take Position on AI in Telemarketing

Womble Bond Dickinson on 1/25/2024

On November 17, 2023, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a Notice of Inquiry (NOI), inviting public feedback on the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) on unsolicited and illicit phone calls and text...more

New TCPA Rules For Prerecorded Calls To Landlines Take Effect July 20

ArentFox Schiff on 7/13/2023

Major changes to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) regulations applicable to unsolicited informational robocalls to landlines are coming into effect on July 20, 2023. As anyone with a landline telephone during...more

FTSA Does Not Apply to Calls Selling Services to Businesses

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 5/3/2023

The Middle District of Florida partially rejected a plaintiff’s motion for entry of final default judgment in Brown v. Care Front Funding, No. 8:22-cv-02408-VMC-JSS, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 60879 (M.D. Fla. Apr. 6, 2023),...more

No Speaking? No Standing!

Carlton Fields on 12/5/2019

On November 15, the Eleventh Circuit decided Cordoba v. DirecTV, LLC, further exploring the issue of when class actions achieve Article III standing. The plaintiffs alleged that DirecTV and the company with which it...more

Court Rejects Attempt to Treble $925 Million Statutory Damages Award

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 7/24/2019

The District of Oregon recently denied a motion for treble damages following a jury verdict finding that defendant made over 1.8 million advertising calls to the named plaintiff and other members of a certified class....more

Modernize TCPA, ACA International Urges in White Paper

Ballard Spahr LLP on 6/8/2016

In a new white paper, ACA International, a trade association for members of the credit and collection industry, argues that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) must be modernized to accurately reflect the current...more

11th, 6th Circuits Rule on TCPA Consent for Autodialed Calls to Cell Phones

Ballard Spahr LLP on 9/3/2015

The U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 11th and Sixth Circuits recently issued two rulings regarding when a consumer has given “prior express consent” under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) to receive text messages or...more

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act – FCC Approves New Rules

Baker Donelson on 7/15/2015

John met Susan in a bar. Enamored, he later asked her friend Mary for Susan's telephone number. The next day John called Susan on his iPhone to ask her out on a date. Sadly, John did not get the girl. Instead, he got sued by...more

FCC’s TCPA Order Offers Little Clarity or Relief for Businesses

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 7/15/2015

In potentially its most significant action under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) since the 2003 overhaul of its rules ushering in the National Do-Not-Call Registry and other updates, the Federal Communications...more

FCC Releases Order Clarifying TCPA

McDermott Will & Emery on 7/14/2015

Last Friday, July 10, 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released Declaratory Ruling and Order 15-72 (“Order 15-72”) to address more than 20 requests for clarity on FCC interpretations of the Telephone Consumer...more

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