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TCPAWorld

It's a fast-paced world out there...

TCPA LITIGATOR SUED FOR FRAUD!: Court Allows Fraud Claim to Proceed Against Consumer Who Applied for Health Coverage After Receiving allegedly Unwanted Calls

WRONG ARGUMENT: Dickey’s Barbecue Loses Motion to Dismiss in DNC SMS TCPA Case– But Not the One You’d Expect

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REMEMBER TO STAY!: Court Grants Stay of Discovery Pending Arbitration Motion Determination– and This is an Important Technique to Keep In Mind

VIVEK LIMITED: Yes, Vivek Shah Has Been Found a Vexatious Litigant. No, that doesn’t mean he Can’t Ever Sue Again– Here’s What It Does Mean

JUSTICE IS SERVED: Vivek Shah Declared a Vexatious Litigant!

“GET MORE INFO” IS NOT AN AGREEMENT: Northern District of California Rejects Arbitration Based On Ambiguous Website Design

DISCOVERY DENIED!: Court Shields Non-Lead State AGs From Depositions In Massive Multi-State Telecom Lawsuit

REFUNDED AND DISMISSED: Court Dismisses TCPA Vicarious Liability Claim After Insurer Returns Policy Proceeds

TEXTS AREN’T CALLS!: Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Holds Definitively Text Messages Are Not Telephone Calls for TCPA DNC Purposes– And Now the Whole Nation Will Take Notice

VANISHING ACT: TCPA Defendant Avoids Fees And Sanctions After Its Attorney Disappears

UNPAID?: BPO Pitch Perfect Solutions and Boris Shvarts Sued in Fair Labor Standards Act Class Action and Call Centers Should Pay Attention

LOFTY: Vivek Shah Served a CIPA Demand Letter on Lofty, Inc.– They Sued Him For It

DASHING DIVA HIT: New FTSA Class Action Targets Short Code “Callability”

PRECEDENT SET: Farmers Decides to Pay $2.87MM To Settle TCPA Suit Arising from Allegedly Illegal SMS from Todd Henderson Insurance Agency– And Insurers Can All Expect A Lot More Lawsuits Now

VIVEK SHAH’S REIGN OF CIPA TERROR CONTINUES…

SUED AGAIN: Lending Tree Sued In ANOTHER TCPA Class Action–This Time Over Failure to Identify Itself in Promotional Text Messages

CRINGE: Court Denies Motion to Dismiss in TCPA Class Action and Its Among the Worst I’ve Seen

FLASHBACK: Court Finds TCPA Claim Not Within the Scope of Tomocredit’s Arbitration Provision and It Feels Like 2012 All Over Again

“THESE CALL CENTERS ARE SECURE”: CTIA Crushes FCC Assumptions Regarding Foreign Call Centers and Takes Aim at Commission NPRM Proposal in Aggressive Reply Comment

IS THIS EVEN LEGAL?: Foreign Trade Organizaton the Mobile Ecosystem Forum Submits “Comment” On FCC KYC NPRM– But It Looks Like ChatGPT Slop

HELLO LAWSUIT: Hello Fresh Caught in TCPA Suit After Allegedly Failing to Honor a Consumer Opt Out

HEAT WAVE: TCPA Class Action Filings Continue to Cook the Nation at a Record Pace as Summer Heats Up

WHO GETS IT?: $144MM Up For Grabs as Merchants Bank of Indiana Sues Account Holders and CFPB In Unusual Interpleader Action

EXECUTION: FCC Kills SK Teleco For Failing to Respond to Tracebacks– Here’s What You Need to Know

“STRUGGLING WITH HONESTY”: Federal Judge Brutally Sanctions TCPA Attorney Amy L.B. Ginsburg for A.I. Use– And If You’re a Lawyer Using Gen Ai for Substantive Legal Work You Better Listen Up

GAME OVER: Court Denies Motion To Dismiss VPPA Claims Against Gaming Website Over Google Tag Video-Viewing Disclosures

TRUSTWORTHY?: Podium Corporation Out of Case on Jurisdictional Grounds– But Did They Cause a TCPA Lawsuit and then Try to Walk Away?

MESSY BUT GOOD: Texas Court Holds TCPA Does not Apply to Text Messages… Sort of

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