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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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WAR OF ATTRITION: Lead Seller Stuck in TCPA Suit After Settling with Litigator Wins Transfer of Third-Party Suit

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Interesting little case for you folks today. Any time you are in a TCPA class action that involves multiple parties– such as when a lead seller makes calls and then transfers the calls to a buyer who is subsequently sued– 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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Courts Continue to Hold Random/Sequential Number Generation is Required to Meet ATDS Definition Under TCPA

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Recently, a string of district courts outside of the Ninth Circuit have held that to qualify as an ATDS, a device must have the capacity to generate telephone numbers randomly or sequentially. In the month since the last such...more

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ATDS Appellate Watchdog: TCPA Autodialer Cases Pending in the Circuit Courts of Appeals You Can’t Miss Post-Marks

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This week, Erin Kubota prognosticated how the United States Circuit Courts of Appeals will decide automatic telephone dialer cases (“ATDS”) post the monumental Marks ruling from the Ninth Circuit on September 20, 2018...more

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

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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

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Polly Want Statutory Damages?: Court Confirms Parroting the Language of the TCPA Won’t Get You Far

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In Montinola v. Synchrony Bank, Civil Action No. 17-8963, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 146716 (D.N.J. Aug. 28, 2018), the District of New Jersey granted defendant’s Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss based on Plaintiff’s failure to...more

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It Will All Come Out in the “Wash”: Did a Southern California District Court Just Solve the TCPA’s ACA Int’l/ATDS Conundrum Once...

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Sometimes the most obvious answer is the hardest one to see. For weeks now the courts have been debating whether the 2003 and 2008 Predictive Dialer Rulings were set aside by ACA Int’l or just the 2015 TCPA Omnibus ruling....more

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Second Circuit Ruling Opens Door to Telephone Consumer Protection Act Class Actions in New York

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Litigation under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) has skyrocketed in recent years, with an estimated eighty percent of all cases filed in or transferred to federal court under the statute occurring in the past...more

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