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The United States Supreme Court is the highest court of the United States and is charged with interpreting federal law, including the United States Constitution. The Court's docket is largely discretionary with only a limited number of cases granted review each term.  The Court is comprised of one chief justice and eight associate justices, who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate to hold lifetime positions. less -
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

TCPA Tracker: April-June 2025

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On June 20, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a district court in an enforcement proceeding is not bound by an agency’s pre-enforcement interpretation of a statute. Rather, as the Court held in McLaughlin Chiropractic...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

A New Era for TCPA Litigation: Conflicting Rulings on Text Messages and Do-Not-Call Rule

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The Supreme Court’s June 2025 decision in McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates v. McKesson Corp. has upended the long-settled framework for Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) compliance and litigation. As we discussed in...more

Troutman Amin LLP

CHAOS: The First Court Just Found the TCPA’s DNC Rules Do Not Apply to Text Messages– So Let the Chaos Begin!

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Those of you who attended Law Conference of Champions III last week heard from the Czar on the critical impact of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in McKesson. That SCOTUS ruling through out Hobbs act deference...more

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CURIOUS: Second Circuit Issues Oddly-Worded Remand In LaBoom Disco ATDS Ruling Following Facebook– Does It Mean Anything?

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Real quick one for the TCPA super nerds. You’ll recall way back in April 2020 the world was melting down. No, I’m not talking about COVID. I am talking about ATDS cases. Perhaps the high-water mark of TCPAWorld ATDS chaos...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Supreme Court's McLaughlin Decision Creates New Uncertainty for Healthcare Text Message Compliance

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The Supreme Court's decision in McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates v. McKesson Corporation seismically shifts how courts will evaluate FCC interpretations of the TCPA, creating new compliance challenges for healthcare...more

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Telephone and Texting Compliance News — June 2025

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We are pleased to present our latest edition of Telephone and Texting Compliance News, providing insights and news related to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)....more

Hinch Newman LLP

TCPA Quiet Hour Lawsuits Proliferate as FCC Considers the Legal Impact of Prior Consent

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The Telephone Consumer Protection Act is a federal statute that governs various telemarketing practices. Following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Facebook v. Duguid (narrowing the interpretation autodialer), the...more

McDermott Will & Emery

2024 Updates to State Mini-TCPA Laws

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Since the Supreme Court of the United States issued its ruling in Facebook v. Duguid, which narrowly interpreted the dialing technologies that are considered an automated telephone dialing system (ATDS) regulated by the...more

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Telephone and Texting Compliance News: Litigation Update — Eyes on Appeals: Fourth Circuit May Weigh In on E-SIGN Act; Stay...

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Fourth Circuit Potentially Weighing In on E-SIGN Act - As we previously covered, a defendant making “winback” calls found itself mired in a TCPA class action in the US District Court for the District of Maryland in a case...more

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Telephone and Texting Compliance News: Litigation Update — Second and Third Circuits Address Automatic Telephone Dialing Systems;...

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In the rapidly evolving landscape of Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) litigation, recent court decisions continue to provide defendant-friendly clarity as to what technology and platforms constitute automatic...more

Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP

Maryland’s New Telemarketing Law Now in Effect: What You Need to Know

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The state trend in regulating telephone and text message marketing continues. Maryland’s new telemarketing law, the “Stop the Spam Calls Act of 2023,” took effect on January 1, 2024. Like the federal Telephone Consumer...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Pa. Autodialer Decision Has Turned TCPA Tides in 3rd Circ.

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The U.S. Supreme Court's 2021 decision in Facebook Inc. v. Duguid resolved a long-standing circuit split over the definition of an automatic telephone dialing system, or ATDS, under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. ...more

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Special Report - State Mini-TCPA Laws Create Patchwork Quilt of Regulations for Automated Calls and Texts - July 2023

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Since the Supreme Court of the United States issued its 2021 ruling in Facebook v. Duguid, which narrowly interpreted the dialing technologies that are considered an automated telephone dialing system (ATDS) regulated by the...more

Carlton Fields

How Fla. Amendment Changes the State's Mini-TCPA

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Last month, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed H.B. 761/S.B. 1308, a law that will amend the Florida Telephone Solicitation Act. Reports of the FTSA's death cannot be exaggerated. As I will discuss below, while there are some...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Multiple Layers of TCPA Defense Remain Important after Duguid

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The Supreme Court’s 2021 decision in Facebook v. Duguid changed the landscape of Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) litigation. For years prior, aggressive plaintiffs had stretched the TCPA’s antiquated language...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Proposed Federal TCPA Legislation Offers a New and Narrow ATDS Definition

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On July 12, 2022, Representatives Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., and Katie Porter, D-Calif. introduced H.R. 8334 in the U.S. House of Representatives, which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. The bill would...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

New House Bill Threatens to Expand the TCPA to Regulate Text Messages

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Last week, six House Democrats introduced H.R. 8334, the Robotext Scam Prevention Act, which seeks to expand federal telemarketing laws to, among other things, expressly cover text messaging. ...more

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Hold the Phones: State-level Telemarketing Laws In Effect

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Given the business disruptions caused by COVID-19, many companies welcomed the ease and minimal costs of using dialing and texting platforms to reach existing and new customers for marketing and sales. ...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Recent Trends in TCPA Litigation - The Consumer Finance Podcast

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Please join Troutman Pepper Partner Chris Willis and his guest and fellow Partner Stefanie Jackman as they discuss recent trends in Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) litigation, including how the landscape has changed...more

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

“Simply Beyond the Bounds of Common Sense”

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California federal court rejects plaintiff’s attempt to circumvent Facebook In April 2021, the Supreme Court dealt a massive blow to Telephone Consumer Protection Act claims based on automatic telephone dialing systems...more

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Unanimous Supreme Court Decision Narrows the Scope of the TCPA

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An April Supreme Court ruling significantly reduced the scope of communications platforms that could be considered autodialers subject to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The decision in Facebook, Inc. v....more

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Class Action Quarterly Update: TCPA

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An April Supreme Court ruling significantly reduced the scope of communications platforms that could be considered autodialers subject to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The decision in Facebook, Inc. v....more

King & Spalding

Fifth Circuit Holds Plaintiff Has Standing to Sue Under TCPA for Receipt of Single Text Message, Parting Ways with Eleventh...

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On May 26, 2021, the Fifth Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) putative class action arising from the transmission of a single text message to the plaintiff. The...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Florida Telemarketing Alert: Florida Likely Has Adopted Strict Rules on Marketing Phone Calls, Text Messages, and Voicemails

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On April 28, 2021, both houses of the Florida legislature unanimously voted to amend Florida’s Telemarketing Act with CS/SB 1120 (the “Act”). The Act was presented to Florida Governor Ron Desantis on June 28, and approved by...more

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Privacy in the Cellphone Era: The Supreme Court Opens the Door to Automated Text Messages

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In 1890, Louis Brandeis wrote a seminal law review article on privacy, defining it as “the right to be left alone.” In 1991, Congress enacted the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) to reinforce that right. This month,...more

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