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Fifth Circuit Decision Vacating FCC Fine Against AT&T Makes It More Difficult for Federal Agencies to Impose Monetary Penalties...

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The Fifth Circuit on April 17 vacated a $57 million FCC forfeiture against AT&T, ruling the agency violated the company’s Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial under the Supreme Court’s 2024 decision in SEC v. Jarkesy. ...more

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FCC's New Robocall One-to-One Consent Standard Postponed by FCC and Vacated by Court on Eve of Effective Date

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On January 24, 2025, three days before the Federal Communications Commission's new Telephone Consumer Protection Act "one-to-one" consent standard was due to take effect, the FCC issued an order postponing the standard's...more

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Court Strikes Down New Robotext and Robocall Rules at the 11th Hour – What Should Businesses Do Now?

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Just one business day before new robotext and robocall rules requiring one-to-one consent and “logically and topically” related requirements were set to take effect, a federal appeals court vacated the requirements and...more

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11th Circuit Vacates FCC’s TCPA 1:1 Consent Rule

In an eleventh-hour play, on January 24, 2025, the Eleventh Circuit issued a decision that vacated the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) One-to-One Consent Rule, which was all set to go into effect on January 27, 2025....more

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FCC One-to-One Consent Rule Vacated by the Eleventh Circuit

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We were all set to release our blog announcing the long-awaited Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) One-to-One Consent Rule (Rule), which was issued in December 2023 and set to take effect on Jan. 27. But alas, both the...more

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Eleventh Circuit Deals Fatal Blow to the TCPA’s One-to-One Consent Rule

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Late in the afternoon on January 24, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) “One-to-One Consent Rule,” which was scheduled to take effect on January 27, 2025, was struck down and vacated by the US Court of...more

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D.C. Circuit Vacates FCC’s Federal Preemption of State Net Neutrality Regulations as It Upholds Repeal of FCC Rules

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit added a new chapter in the ongoing saga over how and whether to regulate providers of broadband internet access service when, on October 1, 2019, it largely...more

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D.C. Circuit Upholds “Light Touch” Federal Regulation of Broadband ISPs, but Opens the Door to Differing State-Level Laws

On October 1, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (“D.C. Circuit”) largely upheld the “light-touch” approach to net neutrality regulation adopted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or the...more

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D.C. Circuit Vacates FCC Order Preempting State Net Neutrality Regulation and Remands - Court's ruling opens the door to...

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In the latest development in the Federal Communications Commission's ("FCC") decade-long approach to net neutrality, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated the FCC's 2018 order preempting state net neutrality...more

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Supreme Court Punts On Whether FCC’s Interpretation of the TCPA Binds Federal Courts

At the end of the Supreme Court’s most recent term, the Court released its long-awaited ruling in PDR Network, LLC v. Carlton & Harris Chiropractic, Inc., 139 S. Ct. 2051 (June 20, 2019)—a case that could have carried...more

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D.C. Circuit Delivers Setback to FCC’s 5G Network Deployment Efforts

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In a recent decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit struck down key portions of a 2018 order by the Federal Communications Commission that would have exempted certain small wireless facilities from...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Decision Leaves Uncertainty For Navigating TCPA Landmines

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The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) prohibits unsolicited calls, text messages and faxes; it’s a federal statute that provides for statutory damages between $500-$1,500 per violation. With the speed and ease (and...more

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Real Property, Financial Services, & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending June 21, 2019

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Real Property Update - Mortgagee Liability: because section 701.04(1)(a), Florida Statutes, requires that the holder of a mortgage deliver to the mortgagor a written estoppel letter setting forth the unpaid balance of the...more

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SCOTUS Punts on TCPA Guidance

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In its long-awaited ruling addressing whether the Administrative Orders Review Act (Hobbs Act) requires district courts to accept the FCC's legal interpretations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (the TCPA), the...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Balks on Judicial Deference to FCC in TCPA Case, While Concurrence Led by Justice Kavanaugh Looks to Swing

TCPA litigators have been closely monitoring the U.S. Supreme Court's docket waiting for a ruling in the PDR Network case. At stake is what kind of judicial deference should be given to the FCC's interpretation of the...more

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SCOTUS Punts on Whether FCC's TCPA Interpretations Bind District Courts

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In November 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court had granted certiorari in PDR Network, LLC v. Carlton & Harris Chiropractic, Inc., to decide whether the Hobbs Act required the district court to accept the Federal Communications...more

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The Impact of PDR Network LLC v. Carlton & Harris Chiropractic

Are district courts prohibited in every instance from considering challenges to the Federal Communication Commission (“FCC”)’s interpretation of certain provisions in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act – or can district...more

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Supreme Court Opens New Line of Attack on Federal Agency Interpretations of Federal Law

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In a recent decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a federal district court was not necessarily bound by the Federal Communications Commission’s prior interpretation of a federal statute over which the agency has...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Leaves Open Issue of Federal Communication Agency Interpretation Of TCPA, For Now

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Dodging the question of whether the Hobbs Act requires a federal court to accept the 2006 Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Order that provides the legal interpretation for the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA),...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Sidesteps Important TCPA Deference Issues

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On June 20, 2019, the Supreme Court released its long-awaited decision in PDR v. Carlton & Harris Chiropractic.  The Court was expected to provide greater clarity about the extent to which litigants can challenge the Federal...more

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Supreme Court Decides PDR Network, LLC v. Carlton & Harris Chiropractic, Inc.

On June 20, 2019, the United States Supreme Court decided PDR Network, LLC v. Carlton & Harris Chiropractic, Inc., No. 17-1705, holding that whether the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 2006 order interpreting the...more

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BREAKING: Supreme Court Vacates and Remands TCPA Case to Fourth Circuit for Further Analysis

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It is a busy TCPA news day! The United States Supreme Court has released its decision in PDR Networks, LLC v. Carlton & Harris Chiropractic, Inc., a TCPA junk fax class action. The decision is available for download...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

What's New In Washington - September 2018

Following a truncated August recess, the House and the Senate returned to Washington after Labor Day with a full plate of legislative items to address prior to the end of the fiscal year on September 30. That list includes...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Ninth Circuit Creates Split Of Authority as to TCPA’s Scope

• Parting company with the 3rd Circuit, the 9th Circuit has ruled that equipment that can automatically dial stored numbers may qualify as an ATDS under the TCPA. • The ruling creates a split of authority as to whether the...more

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Middle District of Florida Finds ACA Vacated the 2003, 2008, and 2015 FCC Orders

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In Gonzalez v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, No. 5:18-cv-340-Oc-30PRL, 2018 WL 4217065 (M.D. Fla. Sept. 5, 2018), the Middle District of Florida determined that the D.C. Circuit’s opinion in ACA International v. FCC, 885 F.3d...more

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