FAST AND EASY?: Nathan Barton Seeks Judgment Against Fast and Easy Marketing– But It Doesn’t Go As Planned

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Quick one for you this morning TCPAWorld.

In Barton v. Fast and Easy Marketing, LLC, et al. 2026 WL 25742 (W.D. Wash. Jan. 5, 2026) famous repeat litigator Nathan Barton filed suit against several companies in connection with unwanted calls he allegedly received. No surprise there.

Barton, however, is pushing to expand the law in Washington state, looking to apply forgotten provisions of the state’s business practice acts to calls in an effort to expand penalties per call from the traditional $500.00 per call to many thousands.

At issue in his current suit were 11 calls attributable to a company called Fast and Easy marketing.

Barton sued for 13 alleged violation of state and federal law.

Specifically under Federal law he sued for violations of sections 227(b) (regulated technology) and (c)(DNC rules) of the TCPA, under CFR sections 47 C.F.R. § 64.1200(b)(prerecorded call disclosure requirements) and 47 C.F.R. § 64.1200(d)(4)(separate disclosure requirements) and  47 C.F.R. § 64.1601(e)–the now infamous caller ID rules Dobronski released upon the world.

So one call– five violations of federal law and up to $7,500.00 in damages.

But he wasn’t done.

He also raised several state law claims: RCW 80.36.390(2)(state identity disclosure rules); RCW 80.36.390(3)(state purpose disclosure rules); RCW 80.36.390(6)(state call termination rules); RCW 80.36.390(7)(consent revocation rules); RCW 80.36.390(8)(time limit rules); RCW 80.36.390(9)(DNC rules); RCW 80.36.390(10)(state caller ID rules); RCW 80.36.400(2)(state ATDS rules).

So eight state law violations per call at something like up to $8k per call.

So put it all together and he wanted about $15k per call. Nuts.

The court actually granted him judgment on ALL of his federal claims, but denied judgment to him on several of his state claims for failure to allege sufficient facts.

Will pay attention to this one to see where it goes but Fast and Easy is going to owe Barton over $100k here for sure. Madness.

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  1. A judgment is just a piece of paper. The real magic trick is turning it into money. I’d happily wager a week’s pay that Fast & Easy Marketing LLC has already slapped a new name on the office door and is merrily cranking out millions more final-expense calls as if nothing ever happened.

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