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Litigation Byte (January 2025 Edition)

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Delivered in digestible, insightful bites, McGlinchey’s Litigation Byte is a monthly roundup of financial services decisions and cases nationwide that impact your business....more

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Fourth Circuit Revisits FCC TCPA Deference Issues Following PDR Network

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Questions over the extent to which district courts must defer to FCC rulings have had a significant impact over key legal issues that drive outcomes in the TCPA litigation. Prior to the Supreme Court’s opinion in PDR Network,...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

The Supreme Court - October 2, 2020

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Brnovich v. Democratic Nat. Comm., No. 19-1257; Arizona Republican Party v. Democratic Nat. Comm., No. 19-1258: 1) Does Arizona’s out-of-precinct policy - which does not count provisional ballots cast in person on Election...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

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

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

The FCC’s “Restoration of Internet Freedom Order” Largely Survives on Appeal; But Net Neutrality is Not Dead Yet

On October 1, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit released a long awaited decision in Mozilla Corporation v. FCC that largely upheld most aspects of the Federal Communications Commission’s 2018 “Restoring Internet...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

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

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

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Deference or preference – looking ahead at the impact of the US Supreme Court’s indecision on questions of agency authority

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) is one of the most frequently litigated statutes, spurring individual, and more often, national class action litigation. The pace at which new TCPA suits are filed is not slowing,...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

Carlton Fields

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

Hudson Cook, LLP

U.S. Supreme Court Sends Case Interpreting TCPA Back to Lower Court

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Congress enacted the Telephone Consumer Protection Act in 1992 to regulate how people communicate by phone and fax. The TCPA gave the Federal Communications Commission regulatory authority to issue rules expanding on 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

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

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

Ballard Spahr LLP

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

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

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

Perkins Coie

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

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

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

Womble Bond Dickinson

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

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Lucia Is Likely To Have Little Impact On Waning FCC Adjudications

During its most recent Term, the Supreme Court held in Lucia v. SEC that the administrative law judges (“ALJs”) that preside over adjudications at the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) are “Officers of the United...more

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D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Sets Aside FCC’s Definition of “Called Party” Under the TCPA—What Comes Next?

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The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) makes it unlawful to make autodialed calls without the prior express consent of the “called party.” 47 USC §227(b)(1)(A). ...more

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