Ad Law Tool Kit Show – Episode 12 – Telemarketing and Texting
Recent Trends in TCPA Litigation - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Credit Eco to Go Podcast - The Results are In: Consumers Really Do Respond Better to Digital Communications
CF on Cyber: An Update on the Changes to the Florida Telemarketing Act
Sitting with the C-Suite: Best Practices in Mobile Device Data Preservation
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - Telecommunication Consumer Protection Act (TCPA): Update and Practical Guidance
Discussing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and the 2020 Election
Video | Tips for Managing the Preservation of Mobile Device Data
Podcast: Keeping Up with Recent Changes and Trends in Private Fund Regulation
Health Tech Podcast - Episode 3: HIPAA, HITECH and TCPA
Since 2009 Courts have been applying FCC rulings suggesting that text messages are calls subject to the TCPA even though text messages didn’t exist at the time the TCPA was passed and the statute does not mention text...more
Earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published a new report and order (“Order”) concerning revocation of consumer consent under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The new rules revise how...more
Consumers use cell phone numbers to authenticate their identities across a variety of accounts, such as those held with wireless providers, financial institutions, healthcare providers, and retail websites. One common example...more
A new FCC rule will require comparison shopping websites and lead generators to obtain consumer consent to receive robocalls and robotext messages one seller at a time....more
On December 13, by a vote of 4-1, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted new rules aimed at “closing the ‘lead generator’ robocall/robotexts loophole.” Specifically, the rule requires telemarketers to obtain...more
A district court in the District of Arizona granted a motion to dismiss in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) case on the basis that multimedia messaging service (MMS) texts do not constitute prerecorded messages...more
On August 8, the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a cause of action under the TCPA, wherein the plaintiff alleged that the defendant sent her three mass marketing text messages that utilized “prerecorded...more
RECENT NEWS - FCC Issues Report and Order Aimed at Unlawful Texting - On February 23, 2023, the FCC issued a Report and Order (the “Order”) which took aim at unlawful texting, marking the first time the FCC has taken...more
Blocking Texts Highly Likely to Be Illegal - Until now, the FCC has focused on curbing illegal robocalls. It has now turned its attention to illegal robotexts, which the agency notes have been increasing rapidly. In an...more
RECENT NEWS - Consumer Consent Required to Send “Ringless Voicemails,” FCC Finds - The Federal Communications Commission ("FCC"), in a recent Declaratory Ruling and Order, stated that callers must obtain consumer...more
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
EDRM Ripped From the Headlines Webinar Series: In this fireside roundtable, guests, Jason R. Baron, former NARA and current Professor of the Practice at the University of Maryland and James and Jack Dever, cyber attorneys...more
At the September 30, 2021 Open Meeting, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) adopted a Fifth Further Notice of Proposing Rulemaking (FNPRM) that proposes additional regulatory requirements on the gateway...more
Financial Services, Healthcare, and Technology sector clients — and any company that places non-marketing calls or text communications to customers by automated means — should pay close attention to two new FCC orders from...more
In an Order issued December 16, 2020, the Eastern District of Texas adopted the Report and Recommendation of United States Magistrate Judge Kimberly C. Priest Johnson finding that calls placed to a cellular telephone do not...more
On March 30, 2020, the American Bankers Association (“ABA”) and several other associations of banks and credit unions (together, “petitioners”) effectively asked the FCC to exempt all COVID-related calls and texts to...more
On March 3, the Third Circuit upheld the Eastern District of Pennsylvania’s judgment in favor of a repeat player in TCPA litigation, concluding that the plaintiff had standing to sue because the calls in question went to his...more