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EYEBROW RAISING: Albertson’s Agrees to Pay Nearly $6MM to Settle TCPA Revocation Class Action But That’s Only Half The Story Here

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On April 21, 2025 Plaintiffs ANTHONY KAMEL, LINNEA MENIN, JASMINE OTTE, JENNIFER SCHOFIELD sued Albertson Companies, Inc. claiming it had violated the TCPA by sending SMS messages to each of them after a STOP request....more

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Telephone and Texting Compliance News: Litigation Updates — July 2025

The Sixth Circuit recently delivered a clear message to litigants pursuing claims under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA): high call volume alone is not enough. In Fluker v. Ally Financial, Inc., the court...more

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Federal Court Finds Text Messages Not Subject to TCPA’s DNC Requirements

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Key Takeaways: Companies sued for Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) violations should consider challenging the allegations at the outset by moving to dismiss, rather than conceding based on out-of-date precedent and...more

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JOURNEYS: Genesco, Inc. Sued in TCPA Class Action Over Promotional SMS Messages From Journeys Brand

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Interesting new TCPA class action filing. Dr. Evil and the folks at LawHQ have filed a class action against Genesco, Inc. alleging it continued to send SMS messages promoting Journeys after a consumer texted stop. Per the...more

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CHAOS CHAOS: A different Court Holds SMS Messages ARE Subject to TCPA DNC Protections– On the SAME DAY A Different Court Disagreed

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Gees keep up everyone! Moments ago I told you to expect chaos as a district court just held (for the first time) SMS Messages are NOT subject to the TCPA’s DNC rules. I told you other courts would disagree. Didn’t realize...more

Klein Moynihan Turco LLP

Caller ID and Text Messages

In Newell v. JR Capital, LLC, a Pennsylvania federal court recently considered, among other things, whether the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (“TCPA”) caller identification (“Caller ID”) requirements apply to text...more

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CURIOUS: Second Circuit Issues Oddly-Worded Remand In LaBoom Disco ATDS Ruling Following Facebook– Does It Mean Anything?

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Real quick one for the TCPA super nerds. You’ll recall way back in April 2020 the world was melting down. No, I’m not talking about COVID. I am talking about ATDS cases. Perhaps the high-water mark of TCPAWorld ATDS chaos...more

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ANOTHER ONE???: Folsom Insurance Agency LLC Facing Sanctions After TCPA Discovery Loss By #BigLaw Counsel

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Good lord another one? I can’t keep up with all the #biglaw losses. I mean, when was the last time ANY #biglaw firm won ANTHING in a TCPA case? My goodness. What a disaster. Here’s another one. In Bond v. Folsom Insurance...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Texas Federal District Court Grants Summary Judgment on FDCPA and TDCA Claims Over Texts and Calls to a Wrong Number

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In a recent decision from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, the court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and Texas Debt Collection Act...more

McGlinchey Stafford

District Court Finds Defendant Honored Opt-out Request Within Reasonable Timeframe under TCPA

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The Northern District of New York recently granted a motion to dismiss a putative class action on the grounds that the defendant honored the named class representative’s request to opt out of text messages within a reasonable...more

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NOT “UNREASONABLE: Three Texts Over Seven Days After Revocation Not Sufficient to Show Lack of Internal DNC Policy

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TCPA revocation cases are on the rise, and a closely related type of case– the internal DNC claim– is on the rise along with it. There is a slight difference between the two types of cases, and one which we don’t talk about...more

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This Week in eDiscovery: What is a Document? Text Message Redaction Dispute Poses this Question

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Every week, the Array team reviews the latest news and analysis about the evolving field of eDiscovery to bring you the topics and trends you need to know. This week’s post covers the period of May 4-10. Here’s what’s...more

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TCPA Quiet Hour Lawsuits Proliferate as FCC Considers the Legal Impact of Prior Consent

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The Telephone Consumer Protection Act is a federal statute that governs various telemarketing practices. Following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Facebook v. Duguid (narrowing the interpretation autodialer), the...more

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Seventh Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment and Adopts Narrow Interpretation of “Telephone Solicitations”

The Seventh Circuit recently affirmed entry of summary judgment against a TCPA plaintiff and adopted the Eastern District of Wisconsin’s interpretation of the phrase “telephone solicitations.” Hulce v. Zipongo, Inc., — F. 4th...more

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It’s all in the Details: Text Messages and The Importance of Detailed ESI Agreements

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Document collection and production now involves more than just sending opposing counsel emails. As business communication has evolved, so has the need for producing from various and evolving streams of communication. Text...more

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Going Mobile: Recent Mobile Device Case Law Trends, Part 1

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One of the best indicators of trends related to mobile device discovery is case law rulings. Case law rulings tell us what the courts are expecting from us regarding how and when electronically stored information (ESI) from...more

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The Cost of Ignoring Mobile Device Discovery

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For years, litigators focused on emails and corporate documents as the primary sources of discoverable evidence. But the way people communicate has changed. Today, crucial case evidence is just as likely—if not more likely—to...more

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Can Parties Redact Text Messages for Relevance in Discovery?

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In today's fast-paced litigation landscape, electronically stored information (ESI) plays a critical role in shaping legal strategies and outcomes. Among the myriad sources of ESI, text messages have emerged as a critical...more

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How to Use Deposition Transcripts to Build Your Case Story

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Use the right tools to analyze your deposition transcripts and build a winning case story. As we mentioned in Part 1, there are many important tasks and responsibilities involved in a litigation matter, but telling a...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

The Power of Depositions

Dismissal of a lawsuit is a rare sanction for a discovery violation, but it happened recently in a workplace discrimination lawsuit, due in large part to two probing depositions that called into question one party’s assertion...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Missouri Federal Court Dismisses Another TCPA Claim Due to Traceability Issues

A federal judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri recently dismissed a claim alleging multiple violations of the TCPA’s do-not-call regulations upon finding that plaintiffs had failed to...more

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Report: 4 Key Challenges of Modern eDiscovery

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Pagefreezer partnered with the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) to create a report that examines how in-house legal teams are dealing with modern data sources. The report, called the Collecting Online Data for...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

Regarding Depositions Seeking Meta-Discovery

Experienced litigators are familiar with the tension between the federal legal system’s policy favoring liberal pretrial discovery into all relevant matters and the countervailing policy forbidding discovery that is...more

J.S. Held

Protect What You Produce: Practical eDiscovery Lessons Learned from the Alex Jones Case

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Making crucial errors in eDiscovery can prove detrimental to both lawyers and their clients. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the case of the Sandy Hook parents who won a $49.3 million judgment, including $45.2 million...more

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Electronic Data Proves Pivotal in Kevin Spacey Cases

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Preservation of electronically stored information (ESI) is steadily becoming a determining component in modern-day litigation. Last year, criminal and civil actions against actor Kevin Spacey Fowler arising from an alleged...more

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