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New Wave of Privacy Litigation: Plaintiffs Press Untested Theories Under 2005 Colorado Prevention of Telemarketing Fraud Act

Troutman Pepper Locke on 7/8/2025

In what appears to be an emerging privacy litigation trend, plaintiffs’ attorneys have recently filed a series of putative class action lawsuits targeting data companies in possession of cellular telephone numbers. The...more

Ninth Circuit Holds Text Messages Are Not Prerecorded Calls

Burr & Forman on 8/10/2023

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

The Third Circuit Holds That A TCPA Violation Alone Is Sufficient To Establish Standing

Fenwick & West LLP on 7/17/2017

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has held that allegations that a customer received a single, unauthorized prerecorded sales voice mail on her cell phone in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act...more

Ninth Circuit Weighs in on Prior Express Consent and Revocation of Consent

Smith Debnam Narron Drake Saintsing & Myers,... on 2/14/2017

The Ninth Circuit recently weighed in on the limitations of prior express consent and revocation under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (the “TCPA”). In Van Patten v. Vertical Fitness Group, LLC, the consumer provided...more

Liability under CDA Section 230? Recent Lawsuit Tries to Flip the Script against Social Media Service

Proskauer - New Media & Technology on 9/9/2016

Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, also known as the “Communications Decency Act of 1996” or “CDA” was signed into law in Feburary 1996. The goal of the CDA was to control the exposure of minors to indecent...more

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New Wave of Privacy Litigation: Plaintiffs Press Untested Theories Under 2005 Colorado Prevention of Telemarketing Fraud Act

Ninth Circuit Holds Text Messages Are Not Prerecorded Calls

The Third Circuit Holds That A TCPA Violation Alone Is Sufficient To Establish Standing

Ninth Circuit Weighs in on Prior Express Consent and Revocation of Consent

Liability under CDA Section 230? Recent Lawsuit Tries to Flip the Script against Social Media Service

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