JUST GETTING STARTED?: ETN America Settles TCPA Class Action With Wolf– Ordered To Give Up Name of Lead Supplier

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You folks might remember I covered a story about ETN America and officer Shlomi Cohen being sued by the Wolf in a TCPA class action.

ETN responded by issuing a press release doubling down on its TCPA compliance efforts, which I thought was pretty savy.

Well turns out ETN settled the case with the Wolf– not sure how much, if any, money was paid but a settlement was entered into– and the Court ordered ETN to reveal its lead source as part of the deal.

In Friel v. ETN America, et al. 2026 WL 146672 (M.D. Pa. Jan. 20, 2026) the Wolf moved to compel ETN to identify the lead source after ETN refused to do so in discovery. ETN didn’t really have grounds to refuse to the disclosure– it is plainly discoverable– but apparently the lead source had some sort of confidentiality provision in its contract preventing ETN from naming it.

Pause.

What?

If you are a lead buyer and your lead seller has a provision in its contract banning you from speaking its name– that’s a pretty big red flag!

Unpause.

The Court in Friel made short work of ETN’s position and ordered it to provide the name of the lead seller to the Wolf within seven days.

So, yeah.

You can fully expect the Wolf to sue the lead seller in a new TCPA class action and I will be eagerly awaiting that so I can report the identity of the lead seller that got ETN into this mess. Will be interesting.

Speaking of interesting– best marketing/advertising legal/compliance show in the country is Law Conference of Champions May 4-6, 2026 and tickets are NOW ON SALE! Get them while they last!

Chat soon.

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The Czar of TCPAWorld Eric Troutman is one of the country’s prominent class action defense lawyers and is nationally recognized in Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) litigation and compliance. He has served as lead defense counsel in more than 70 national TCPA class actions and has litigated nearly a thousand individual TCPA cases in his role as national strategic litigation counsel for major banks and finance companies. He also helps industry participants build TCPA-compliant processes, policies, and systems. Eric has built a national litigation practice based upon deep experience, rigorous analysis and extraordinary responsiveness. Eric and his team feel equally at home litigating multibillion dollar telecommunications class actions in federal court as they do developing and executing national litigation strategies for institutions facing an onslaught of individual TCPA matters. They thrive in each of these roles – delivering consistently excellent results – while never losing sight of the client experience. While many firms now tout TCPA expertise, Eric has been there from the beginning. He built one of the country’s first TCPA-only defense teams and began serving as national TCPA counsel for his clients nearly a decade ago. This perspective allows him to swiftly develop the right litigation strategies for dealing with recurring problems, without wasting time on tactics that are bound to fail. Eric’s rich historical perspective and encyclopedic knowledge of the TCPA landscape also make him an invaluable resource to institutional compliance teams struggling to comply with the shifting regulatory landscape. No task is too small – or too big. Indeed, Eric and his team have helped build TCPA-compliant systems and processes for some of the largest and most complex corporate entities in the country. He commonly works with in-house compliance counsel to build and implement enterprise and business-line specific TCPA solutions, performs TCPA audits and drafts and reviews proposed TCPA policies and procedures. He and his team also have the technical expertise necessary to assist call centers seeking to develop TCPA-resistant call path architecture or to modify existing telephony and software integration to better insulate from potential TCPA exposure. Eric has built a reputation for thought leadership. An avid blogger and speaker, he has been at the forefront of the industry’s effort to push for clarity and a return to sanity for the TCPA for years. He was selected to advocate for the financial services industry on important TCPA issues before the Federal Communications Commission and co-authored the nation’s only comprehensive practice guide on TCPA defense. In his spare time, Eric leads defense teams representing banks and other financial services companies in consumer finance litigation matters. He has experience representing clients in UCC, TILA, RESPA FCRA, CCRA, CLRA, FDCPA, RFDCPA and FCCPA claims, as well as in fraud and bank operations issues.

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