Telecommunications, Putative Class Actions, Telemarketing

CLASS DECERTIFIED: Company That Was Too Small to Pay Class Judgment Exits Certified TCPA Case for Individual Settlement– And Its a...

Troutman Amin LLP on 8/7/2025

Every once in a while a plaintiff’s attorney will do the unthinkable. They will win certification in a TCPA class action and then walk it back– agreeing to accept an individual resolution instead of a classwide deal. The...more

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

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

Troutman Pepper Locke on 5/16/2024

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

This Week At The Ninth: Inaudible Texts and Bankruptcy Fees

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Left Coast Appeals on 8/14/2023

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

New Jersey District Court Dismisses TCPA Case with Prejudice for Failure to Properly Identify Defendant

Burr & Forman on 7/19/2023

Brennan Landy v. Vision Solar, LLC d/b/a Solar Exchange, No. 21-20241 2023 WL 4578993 (D.N.J. July 18, 2023) - In this case, Plaintiff filed a putative class action alleging Defendant violated the Telephone Consumer...more

Northern District of California Denies Arbitration in TCPA Class Action, Citing Lack of Affirmative Assent to Arbitrate in Web...

Troutman Pepper Locke on 9/9/2020

On September 1, 2020, a district court in the Northern District of California weighed in on an issue of recurring importance in internet commerce: how does a business obtain a remote consumer’s effective agreement to terms...more

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

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 10/3/2019

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

Second Circuit Holds Flu Shot Reminder Did Not Violate the TCPA

Smith Debnam Narron Drake Saintsing & Myers,... on 1/15/2018

The Second Circuit has affirmed a lower court decision that a flu shot reminder sent by text message by a medical provider did not violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (the “TCPA”). The decision is important because...more

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