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On October 28, 2024, The Sports Prophets Inc. ('Defendant') was sued in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California for allegedly violating the Internal Do Not [...]

On June 17, 2024, a judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted final approval of the class settlement reached by the parties in [...]

As readers of this blog know, on May 18, 2023, the Federal Communications Commission ('FCC' or 'Commission') issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ('NPRM'). In addition to recommending that opt-out [...]

On May 18, 2023, the Federal Communications Commission ('FCC' or 'Commission') issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ('NPRM'). Among other things, the NPRM proposes that companies honor certain unsubscribe or [...]

On February 23, 2023, the Federal Communications Commission ('FCC' or 'Commission') issued a telemarketing Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ('FNPR'). Most notably, the FCC telemarketing FNPR [...]

More and more businesses are engaging potential customers via telemarketing. With this comes the growing risk of contacting consumers who have not provided proper TCPA consent. The Telephone Consumer Protection [...]

In a recent Florida putative class action, Pariseau v. Built USA, LLC, plaintiff alleged that defendant violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ('TCPA') as well as the Florida Telephone Solicitation [...]

As telemarketing litigation under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ('TCPA') continues to evolve (and, in some ways, narrow), more plaintiffs are relying on theories of liability that stretch the meaning [...]

The number of Telephone Consumer Protection Act ('TCPA') class action lawsuits has exploded in the past few years. Congress and regulators cannot seem to keep up with new technology and [...]

As its name suggests, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 ('TCPA') was drafted, debated, passed, and signed into law well before cell phones became ubiquitous. It is, therefore, unsurprising [...]

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (the 'Court') recently issued a ruling declaring that the receipt of a single unsolicited text message advertisement is insufficient to [...]

In a case pending before the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, the putative class representative has asked the Court to certify a class of people [...]

On February 7, 2019, Plaintiff Michael Seefeldt ('Seefeldt)' commenced a text message lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The named defendants are the [...]

On January 22, 2019, Carol Mazzariol ('Plaintiff') filed a putative Telephone Consumer Protection Act ('TCPA') class action lawsuit against medical spa company, MedSpa Del Mar, LLC ('MedSpa'). The TCPA text [...]

A nationwide class action lawsuit alleging violations of federal text messaging law has been filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida against a prominent [...]

On September 5, 2018, the United States District Court for Colorado granted a motion permitting All Web Leads, Inc. ('All Web') to intervene in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act ('TCPA') [...]

On September 11, 2018, Chad Fernandez ('Plaintiff') 'hit' Tampa Bay Rays Baseball Ltd. ('Tampa Bay Rays') with a putative Telephone Consumer Protection Act ('TCPA') class action lawsuit in Florida federal [...]

A nationwide class action lawsuit alleging violations of federal text messaging law has been filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida against one of [...]

Eaze Solutions, Inc. ('Eaze'), a prominent marijuana delivery company located in California, was recently named as a defendant in a nationwide class action lawsuit alleging violations of federal telemarketing law. [...]

A complaint was recently filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ('TCPA') in connection with the [...]

On July 12, 2017, the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington dismissed a putative class action complaint filed against Twilio, Inc. ('Twilio'), alleging that the platform [...]

Last week, two separate class action complaints were filed in a Chicago federal court against Donald Trump's official campaign committee: Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. ('Trump for President'). Both [...]

As the 2016 election cycle continues to heat up, the Federal Communications Commission's Enforcement Bureau (the 'FCC' or 'Commission') released an Enforcement Advisory this Monday outlining the Telephone Consumer Protection [...]

Last week, the named plaintiff in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act ('TCPA') class action lawsuit against Bebe Stores, Inc. ('Bebe') filed a motion for class certification. The Plaintiff has sought [...]

Last Monday, the Federal Communications Commission (the 'FCC' or 'Commission') denied a Petition for Declaratory Ruling filed by text message marketing service provider Club Texting, Inc. ('Club Texting'), confirming that [...]

On December 14, 2015, the United States District Court for the Southern District of California denied a motion for summary judgment filed by Yahoo! Inc. ('Yahoo') which claimed that human [...]

On November 17, 2015, the United States District Court for the Central District of California dismissed a class action complaint filed against Microsoft Corporation ('Microsoft') alleging violations of the Telephone [...]

Last Friday, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals breathed new life into a Telephone Consumer Protection Act ('TCPA') class action lawsuit against multinational tech giant Yahoo Inc. ('Yahoo'), vacating an [...]

While federal courts throughout the country continue to struggle with the question of what constitutes an automatic telephone dialing system ('ATDS') within the meaning of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act [...]

On April 2, 2015, a class action lawsuit was filed against PVH Corp., d/b/a Tommy Hilfiger ('TH'), alleging that TH violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ('TCPA') by sending mass [...]

This Tuesday, Mr. Noah Duguid filed a class action lawsuit in California federal court against Facebook for allegedly sending automated text messages to mobile phone users without their prior express [...]

In the case of Glauser v. GroupMe, Inc., the District Court for the Northern District of California recently rendered a decision on motion, the focal issue of which was determining [...]

On November 30, 2014, a class action complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida against Domino's Pizza, LLC ('Domino's') and mobile marketer [...]

The E-mail List Management Opportunity Website operators and other online businesses frequently amass a very valuable, targeted database of e-mail addresses in the course of operating their respective businesses. Where [...]

On Tuesday November 4, 2014, social media giant Twitter, Inc. ('Twitter') fully submitted a motion to dismiss a Telephone Consumer Protect Act ('TCPA') class action lawsuit pending against it in [...]

The number of Telephone Consumer Protection Act ('TCPA') class action lawsuits has exploded in the past year. As a result, there have been many written decisions which provide both clarification [...]

On October 22, 2014, the Federal Trade Commission ('FTC') announced that it had settled a long-standing case against a group of defendants that allegedly engaged in text message, robocall and [...]

Hooters of America, LLC ('Hooters'), the well-known sports bar franchise, was recently sued in the United States District Court for the Central District of California for allegedly sending unsolicited commercial [...]

The number of Telephone Consumer Protection Act ('TCPA') class action lawsuits has exploded in the past few years. The October 16, 2013, regulation amendments and the liberal interpretation of the [...]

As we have detailed countless times on this blog, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ('TCPA'), with some notable exceptions, allows individuals to file lawsuits (including class action lawsuits) to collect [...]

Rite Aid Corporation ('Rite Aid') was recently sued in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California for allegedly sending unsolicited commercial text messages in violation of [...]

In 2011, the Federal Trade Commission ('FTC') filed a complaint against text message marketer Phil Flora alleging that he had sent millions of deceptive text messages to consumers in violation [...]