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The Telephone Consumer Protection Act is a United States federal statute enacted in 1991 to protect consumers from unsolicited telephone marketing calls.  
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$150k DEFAULT JUDGMENT STANDS: T-Mobile Cannot Evade Expensive TCPA Loss Due to a Simple Procedure Failure

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The law is so arcane. A jungle of ferns and vines to snag and ensnare. Only the truly wary can survive long. It takes a survivalist instinct. I love it here. As one federal judge said of me once after I failed to fall into...more

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TEXTS AREN’T CALLS!: State Appellate Court Holds Text Messages Are Not Telephone Calls Were Purposes of Criminal Statute

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Since 2009 Courts have been applying FCC rulings suggesting that text messages are calls subject to the TCPA even though text messages didn’t exist at the time the TCPA was passed and the statute does not mention text...more

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This Week At The Ninth: Inaudible Texts and Bankruptcy Fees

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This week, the Ninth Circuit addresses whether text messages can violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s prohibition on “prerecorded voice” messages, and it considers whether debtors who paid statutory fees under an...more

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