Robocalling, Hobbs Act, Prior Express Consent

FCC 'Deletes' TCPA Regulations Following Supreme Court and Eleventh Circuit Rulings

Pierce Atwood LLP on 7/23/2025

In the last month, we have gained additional insight into the future of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) regulation and how class action litigation might be shaped by...more

Ninth Circuit decision on TCPA autodialer definition settles: what does it mean?

Ballard Spahr LLP on 3/1/2019

In September 2018, in Marks v. San Diego Crunch, a unanimous Ninth Circuit three-judge panel held that the TCPA’s definition of an automatic dialing system (ATDS) includes telephone equipment that can automatically dial phone...more

Prognosticating Post Marks: Will Courts in Other Jurisdictions Follow in the 9th Circuit’s Footsteps on the Definition of an ATDS...

Womble Bond Dickinson on 9/27/2018

We clearly do not have a crystal ball here in TCPAland, otherwise we would have been able to accurately predict the Ninth Circuit’s monumental recent decision in Marks v. Crunch San Diego, LLC, 2018 WL 4495553 (9th Cir. Sept....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

Legal Alert: Eleventh Circuit Reverses Outlier Decision on TCPA Prior Express Consent Standard

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 10/8/2014

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has clarified the standard for “prior express consent” under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) in a September 29, 2014 decision reversing an outlier ruling by a...more

Eleventh Circuit Reverses Refusal to Honor FCC’s TCPA Debt Collection Declaratory Ruling, Fosters Uniformity on TCPA’s Autodialing...

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 10/6/2014

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has brought a bit of legal balance back to automated debt collection calls, and reminded lower courts that when it comes to claims under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act...more