Late last week, a District Court in the Northern District of Illinois reconsidered a ruling it made back in 2014 denying Yahoo!’s summary judgment motion, and granted the motion in light of ACA Int’l. Johnson v. Yahoo!, Inc., No. 14-cv-02028 (N.D. Ill. Nov. 29, 2018). Notably, this […]
Yesterday, a trio of Democratic Senators – Dianne Feinstein, Richard Blumenthal, and Amy Klobuchar – introduced the REAL PEACE Act. The Act proposes to eliminate the long-standing exemption of common carriers from the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission and its enforcement powers. According to the Bill’s preamble, […]
The “Ivy” AI text message platform is in the cross-hairs again in a class action filed against Caesars Entertainment Corporation in Castillo v. Caesars Entm’t Corp., No. 18-cv-05781-EMC, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 201721 (N.D. Cal. Nov. 28, 2018). But unlike the class action involving the same platform against […]
Even under Marks, a manually-dialed call remains excluded from the TCPA, at least according to a new decision out yesterday. The District Court in Hatuey v. Ic Sys., No. 1:16-cv-12542-DPW, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 193713 (D. Mass. Nov. 14, 2018) declined to definitively take a side on the definition […]
As reported earlier today, the Supreme Court granted the Petition for Certiorari in PDR Network, LLC v. Carlton & Harris Chiropractic, Inc., No. 17-1705, 2018 WL 3127423 (U.S. Nov. 13, 2018) to consider the following legal question: Whether the Hobbs Act required the district court in this case […]
BIG TCPA NEWS! This morning the Supreme Court granted a Petition for Certiorari in a junk fax TCPA class action to answer the following question: Whether the Hobbs Act required the district court in this case to accept the FCC’s legal interpretation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. […]
A magistrate judge in the Southern District of Florida has recommended that the Defendant’s motion for summary judgment based upon ATDS use be denied. Fortunately, this isn’t a Marks effect case. In fact, the legal definition of an ATDS isn’t even touched. Instead, the Court’s ruling was based […]
Hi everyone! Well, I’m sure you’ve heard the good news from the Czar by now, and we’re all very excited here at TCPAland. Boy what a celebration I had when I found out. I put the kids the bed, had a glass of champs with my wife, then […]
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