BALANCED OUT?: TCPA Class Actions Drop in June, 2026 YOY For the First Time Since November– Is it Fall Out From SMS Discord?

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For years now people have been asking me when TCPA class action filings will peak.

Well folks, we may have our answer.

June, 2026 saw 250 TCPA filings and 191 TCPA Class Action filings– a huge number of filings but LOWER than the same period last year.

In June, 2025 the TCPAWorld saw 257 total filings and 202 class action filings.

That means this June saw 11 FEWER class actions than last year.

Now that’s hardly a meaningful drop– but what IS meaningful is that there was a drop at all. Every month this year we’ve seen YoY gains in filings– so this change in direction could be a signal that TCPA cases have peaked. Maybe this is the result of the confusion over SMS rules slow DNC case filings.

Or it might just be a sophisticated market taking a breather headed into the summer. Unclear.

What we do know is that YoY filings for 2026 remain up substantially– 1,263 this year compared to 1,052 this  time last year. That’s a 20% increase at the mid-point of the year.

The nation’s top filer this year so far has been Gerald Lane– representing 431 consumers. Eesh that’s a lot.

We’ll keep an eye on these trends.

Thanks everyone. Chat soon!

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Published by Eric "Czar" Troutman

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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