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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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July 2025 Consumer Litigation Trends: TCPA Class Actions Remain Elevated as Consumer Litigation and Complaints Rise

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WebRecon’s latest July 2025 report shows that, after a temporary slowdown in June, consumer litigation and complaint activity have bounced back significantly. Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), Fair Debt Collection...more

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ATDS Status Turns on Capability of Dialing Equipment, Not Actual Use, Third Circuit Holds—But Liability Turns on Actual Use, Not...

Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit concluded that the TCPA’s definition of “automatic telephone dialing system” (or “ATDS”) includes all dialing equipment with the present ability to generate random or...more

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Is Express Revocation Necessary? District Court Finds Genuine Dispute of Material Fact Regarding TCPA Consent, Absent Evidence of...

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A Kentucky district court judge recently granted in part and denied in part a defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) case, Barnett v. First National Bank of Omaha. The court held...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

TCPA FCC Petitions Tracker - September 2021

Kelley Drye’s Communications Practice Group presents this tracker of active Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) petitions before the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”). With the recent increase in litigation...more

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Company Using Predictive Dialer Prevails in Post-Facebook Decision

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A federal court out of Nebraska recently issued a decision providing a decisive post-Facebook v. Duguid victory for a company using a predictive dialer. In Grome v. USAA Savings Bank, No. 4:19-CV-3080, 2021 WL 3883713 (D....more

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TCPA Standing: A New Circuit Split and Other Developments

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Two U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals recently weighed in on what it takes to establish standing to pursue a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) claim. The 5th Circuit held that receipt of one unwanted text message is...more

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Dialing In: TCPA Top 5 Issues for 2021

Will anything stop the continuing barrage of class action lawsuits under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)? In 2020, TCPA lawsuits remained one of the most commonly-filed type of class action in federal courts...more

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The U.S. Supreme Court Broadens The TCPA Class Action Trap For Unwary Businesses

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Seyfarth Synopsis: While many businesses hoped that the U.S. Supreme Court would blow up the ban on autodialed calls in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), on July 6, 2020, the nation’s highest court issued its...more

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Supreme Court Debates Whether to Flush TCPA’s Autodialer Restriction During Barr v. AAPC Oral Argument

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It seems that the oral argument in Barr, Attorney General v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc. may become better known for the toilet flush that could be heard in the course of the argument, rather than the...more

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Eleventh Circuit Holds an ATDS Must Have Capacity to Randomly or Sequentially Generate Numbers

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The Eleventh Circuit has spoken on the interpretation of the automatic telephone dialing system (“ATDS”) definition, and held that to qualify as an ATDS a device must have the capacity to randomly or sequentially generate...more

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Ninth Circuit Finds that the TCPA Debt Collection Exception Violates the First Amendment

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Last month, in Duguid v. Facebook, Inc., 17-15320, 2019 WL 2454853 (9th Cir. June 13, 2019), the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) held that the debt collection exception to the Telephone...more

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Bargained-For Consent: An Increasingly Viable Defense to TCPA Claims

• In most TCPA cases, a threshold question is whether a called party has provided prior express consent to receive calls (or texts) using an automatic telephone dialing system. • While numerous courts have ruled that a party...more

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Northern District of Alabama Holds Contractual Consent Cannot Be Revoked Under TCPA

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The Northern District of Alabama recently followed the Second Circuit’s holding in Reyes v. Lincoln Automotive Financial Services, 861 F.3d 51 (2d Cir. 2017), and held that consent provided in a contract as part of a...more

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Trap for the Unwary?: Target Busted for ATDS Calls in Mass. that Seemed to be Lawful Under AG Guidance

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A tree falling in the forest may not make a sound, but as Target Corporation learned yesterday, an initiated contact counts against a Massachusetts’ statute’s two-call limitation even if no pre-recorded message is played....more

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Second Circuit Denies Rehearing in Key TCPA Case

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Businesses that have not already done so should consult with counsel regarding "consent to be called" provisions in their consumer contracts in the wake of the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit...more

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Student Loan Creditor Off the Hook for Third Party Collectors’ TCPA Violations, But is Not Exempt for Collecting Government Backed...

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A District Court in the Southern District of California recently cut loose a student loan creditor entangled in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) lawsuit, finding the defendant was not vicariously liable for the...more

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“Human Intervention” in Calling System Dooms Plaintiff’s TCPA Claim

Another Florida district court, another favorable ruling for companies facing TCPA lawsuits. In Pozo v. Stellar Recovery Collection Agency, Inc., U.S. Magistrate Judge Anthony E. Porcelli granted summary judgment for...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

FCC Issues Federal Debt Collection Robocall Rules

On August 11, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) issued a Report and Order (“R&O”) adopting rules to implement provisions of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, which amended the Telephone Consumer Protection Act...more

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California Federal Court Dismisses TCPA Claims for Lack of Article III Standing

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A plaintiff did not have Article III standing to assert claims under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) for alleged autodialed calls made to her without her consent, a California federal district court recently...more

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Where’s the (TCPA) Harm in That?

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Spokeo v. Robins that plaintiffs must allege a concrete and particularized injury to meet Article III standing requirements, federal district courts across the country are...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

FCC Issues Two Key TCPA Orders

In the past two weeks, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued two important orders that modified and clarified the agency’s rules for enforcement of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Both orders are...more

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District Court Holds Professional Plaintiff Lacks Article III Standing to Bring TCPA Action Under Supreme Court’s Spokeo, Inc. v....

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Following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, 136 S. Ct. 1540 (U.S. May 16, 2016), it is clear that “Article III standing requires a concrete injury even in the context of a statutory violation,” such that a...more

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FTC Backs FCC’s Proposed Rule on TCPA Amendments for Calls Collecting Government Debt

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The Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Bureau of Consumer Protection issued a Staff Comment on June 16, 2016, supporting several of the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) proposed regulations implementing amendments to...more

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TCPA Update – Amendment Exempting Federal Debts Held Retroactive

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A case out of the Northern District of California has ruled that recent amendments to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), 47 U.S.C. §227, that exempt federally guaranteed loans from TCPA liability, are retroactive....more

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FTC Highlights FDCPA Risks for Debt Collectors Using Social Media, Texts

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently published a reminder to debt collectors of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) compliance risks that are created by the use of social media or text messages in connection...more

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