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Another Court Holds Text Messages Not Subject to Do-Not-Call Registry TCPA Claims

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Davis v. CVS Pharmacy, Inc., No. 4:24-cv-477-AW-MAF (N.D. Fla. Aug. 26, 2025) - Plaintiff filed a putative class action, claiming that Defendant violated 47 U.S.C. § 227(c)(5) and its implementing regulation, 47 C.F.R. §...more

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Second Circuit Upholds TCPA Case Dismissal: ATDS Must Generate Phone Numbers, Text Messages Don’t Qualify as Artificial Voices

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In Soliman v. Subway Franchisee Advertising Fund Trust, Ltd, the plaintiff alleged that the defendant violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) by sending a text message to her cell phone using an automatic...more

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Wisconsin Federal Court Finds that DNC Provision Extends to Text Messages

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On September 21, the Eastern District of Wisconsin denied a motion to partially dismiss a class action complaint alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), holding that the Do Not Call provision of...more

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Ninth Circuit Holds Text Messages Are Not Prerecorded Calls

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Trim v Reward Zone USA LLC, No. 22-55517, 2023 WL 5025264 (9th Cir. August 8, 2023) - Plaintiff filed a putative class action, contending, in part, that three marketing text messages she received utilized prerecorded voices,...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Florida Federal Court Stays Putative Class Action to Await Guidance from the FCC and Eleventh Circuit as to What Constitutes an...

It can fairly be said that the statutory definition of “automatic telephone dialing system” (“ATDS”) has generated far more questions than answers—for courts and litigants alike. This is especially true in the wake of ACA...more

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Court Holds That Text-Messaging System Must Be Able to Randomly or Sequentially Generate Numbers to Qualify as an ATDS

The Northern District of Illinois recently entered summary judgment against a group of plaintiffs because it found the system at issue was not an ATDS. In Smith v. Premier Dermatology, No. 17-3712, 2019 WL 4261245 (N.D....more

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Video Countdown: Top Ten 2018 TCPA News Stories

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The world of the TCPA is marked by constant flux and 2018 proved to be a particularly fluctuating year as the TCPA yo-yo'ed between positive court decisions, alarming legal enforcement against violators of the TCPA, and...more

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Supreme Court Poised To Alter TCPA Landscape With Review Of Key Term “Advertisement”

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court decided to review a case that potentially carries far reaching ramifications for litigation under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), which places restrictions on phone and fax...more

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Behind the Faxes: Sixth Circuit Holds That Plaintiff in TCPA Junk Fax Class Action Adequately Pled That Informational Fax Violated...

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Late last week, the Sixth Circuit held that a plaintiff in a junk fax class action alleged sufficient facts to establish that a fax – which was seemingly informational on its face – was nonetheless an “unsolicited...more

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