Yesterday, Judge Otis Wright of the Central District of California ordered the Plaintiff in a TCPA class action to show cause why the case shouldn’t be stayed pending the outcome the First Amendment issues before the Ninth Circuit in the Gallion v. Charter Commc’ns, Inc., 287 F. […]
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 […]
2018 wasn’t supposed to end like this. With the long-awaited ACA Int’l ruling finally handed down–predictably overruling the FCC’s disastrous 2015 TCPA Omnibus Ruling–and with the fate of the TCPA seemingly resting in the confident hands of the FCC’s new Chairman–business-friendly Republican Trump-appointee Ajit Pai— it looked like large-scale TCPA […]
A great decision for Navient Solutions came down yesterday out of the Northern District of Alabama in Green v. Solutions, No. 1:17-CV-1453-VEH, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 201906 (N.D. Ala. Nov. 29, 2018). Navient Solutions had its motion for summary judgment granted on the basis that it was calling […]
Another day another patchwork ATDS decision here in TCPAland. But this latest case has an interesting wrinkle– can a text message responding to a “help” request from a consumer be sent even if the original text prompting the “help” response was sent without consent? In Zemel v. CSC […]
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 […]
The TCPA legal doctrine atom smasher continues to, well, smash atoms. Earlier today we learned a bit about Article III standing of class representatives from a TCPA case, and now the wide world gets to learn about the proper application of the American Pipe tolling doctrine brought to you–once again–through […]