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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
On April 7, 2025, the FCC’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau (CGB) released an order announcing a one-year delay of a new implementing rule for the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) related to consumers’...more
Last year, the FCC adopted new rules under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) designed to expand consumers’ rights to revoke consent to receive robocalls and text messages. As we noted in a prior post, these changes...more
On April 7, 2025, with just four days to spare, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) delayed the effective date of part of its impending rule regarding how companies respond to opt-out requests from individuals to a...more
Barring a last-minute reprieve, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) new rules regarding how consumers can revoke their consent under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) will go into effect on April 11, 2025...more
The legal world has been abuzz with news of the Federal Communications Commission's One-to-One Consent Rule, which was vacated by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals last month. However, an additional new FCC rule warrants...more
Recently, the FCC announced the new rules under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) will take effect on April 11, 2025, making it easier for consumers to revoke consent for unwanted robocalls and robotexts. As...more
In April, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) adopted its Net Neutrality Order which once again reclassified Broadband Internet Access Service (BIAS) as a Title II, common carrier service. ...more
On February 16, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission released a Report and Order establishing significant new standards regulating Telephone Consumer Protection Act consent and revocation of consent. In recent weeks,...more
As previously reported here, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a proposed rule in December 2020 that would place new call-frequency limitations and opt-out requirements on certain prerecorded...more
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA) restricts many types of calls to residential and wireless telephone numbers if they are made without the prior express consent of the called party or a statutory exemption...more
Financial Services, Healthcare, and Technology sector clients — and any company that places non-marketing calls or text communications to customers by automated means — should pay close attention to two new FCC orders from...more
On December 30, 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released a Report and Order updating a number of Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) exemptions. The Report and Order codifies exemptions...more
The FCC has issued a notice announcing that it is seeking comment on a petition filed by Capital One Services, LLC (Capital One) that asks the FCC to issue a declaratory ruling to confirm that the recipient of an opt-out...more
By directing voice service providers to deal with “unwanted calls” as part of its anti-robocall policies, the FCC seems to have moved well beyond addressing “illegal and spoofed robocalls.” The text of the FCC’s new “Call...more
Written by Artin Betpera and David Carter The FCC has adopted a declaratory ruling allowing carriers to automatically opt consumers into call blocking programs. The new rules give carriers the option of opting consumers in by...more
Voice service providers soon may dictate which calls will reach you. The FCC honed in on “unwanted calls” when it voted at its Open Meeting yesterday to adopt a Declaratory Ruling and Third Further Proposed Rulemaking (the...more
In an effort to modernize communications, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) decided to allow cable operators to deliver general subscriber notices required under so-called Subpart T rules (47 CFR §§ 76.1601 et...more
NOT LEGAL ADVICE, NOT LEGAL ADVICE, NOT LEGAL ADVICE–DON’T RELY ON THIS–CONSULT AN ATTORNEY - Every once in a while we get some questions from our loyal readers. Thought I’d take a minute and provide a few answers where I...more
On October 25, 2018, the FCC released a draft Report and Order that would expressly allow cable operators to provide certain written customer communications electronically. As part of the FCC’s “Modernization of Media...more
OCEAN CITY – A local man is fighting to save his beachfront home after a crushing legal award of $12.5 million in damages. He said it’s over sending a single fax to a company in Pope County, Ark. Gene Kalsky was recently...more
• The D.C. Circuit reviewed a 2015 FCC order that interpreted the TCPA’s prohibition against using automated dialing devices to make unsolicited calls to cellular telephones. The court set aside two portions of the 2015 Order...more
At its June 2017 Open Meeting, the Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC” or “Commission”) unanimously approved a process to review the alternative plans of States and Territories (“States”) that seek to opt out of the...more
The Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has just struck down the FCC’s rule requiring companies to include opt-out notices in solicited faxes, even as to persons who have previously consented to receive them. In Bais Yaakov...more
The FCC's 2006 Solicited Fax Rule is unlawful to the extent that it requires opt-out notices on solicited fax advertisements, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has held in a 2-1 ruling....more