ATDS/Predictive Dialer Cases

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Category: ATDS/Predictive Dialer Cases

CASE DISMISSED AS MOOT: Five9 an ATDS? and Last-Minute Individual Settlements

Ding Dong [Auto] Dialer Claims? Another Case Demonstrates the Difficultly in Bringing ATDS Claims After Facebook

Court Soundly REJECTS Footnote 7 In Clearest Argument Yet!!

THE WINS KEEP COMING! Another Court Finds Calling From Curated List of Numbers is Not R&SNG

A Win and a Loss (but Mostly a Win!) Court Grants Motion to Dismiss on Vicarious Liability Theory

CRUISING TO A WIN: Another Court Rejects FN7 Argument—Dismisses TCPA Complaint at the Pleadings Stage in Marketing Suit

Predictive Dialer NOT ATDS After Facebook! In Huge Post-Facebook Ruling Court GRANTS Defendant Summary Judgment, But Will Other Courts Follow?

No Authority! Insurance Company Obtains Dismissal of TCPA Claim for Lack of Agency With Alleged ATDS Calls

A Pyrrhic Victory? D. Mass Adopts Marks And Holds A Text Is A Call

Partial Win for Company Facing Nationwide ATDS Class Action: Court cannot Exercise Personal Jurisdiction Over Out-of-State Named Plaintiffs, but Arbitration Clause “Unconscionable” and ATDS Allegations Sufficient

No Summary Judgment on ATDS Allegations, Despite Glasser

Out With The Old, In With The New: Archduke’s 2021 TCPA Predictions

Trouble in New Mexico for a Company and Its Officer

Archduke Live: Realtime, Unfiltered Coverage of The SCOTUS ATDS Argument

No TCPA Claims Against Debt Collectors Allowed!: Court holds that ATDS Allegations Against Debt Collection Companies Simply not Plausible in Seventh Circuit

The TCPA and the First Amendment: Where We Are and Where We’re Going

Missed Marks: Court Transfers Carpet Bagging TCPA Class for Improper Attempt to Bend Venue Rules to Take Advantage of 9th Circuit Case Law

What a Disaster: Defendant’s Effort to Set Aside $233k Arbitrator Award Leads to Worst ATDS Decision in Over a Year

A New ATDS Pleading Standard?: Big Motion to Dismiss May be Harbinger of Things to Come

A Three-Way Circuit Split on ATDS?: Court Recognizes Mass ATDS Confusion in Overruling TCPA Pleadings Challenge

Seventh Circuit Joins The Party: Another Circuit Rejects Marks And Holds A Random or Sequential Number Generator Is Required For A System to be An ATDS

“Remember these words”: Eleventh Circuit COA Absolutely Torches Expansive TCPA Reading–Holds ATDS Requires Random or Sequential Number Generation

Radio Clash: Czar Joins NPR’s “On Point” Live Christmas Eve at 10 AM Eastern/7 AM Pacific

TCPA Quick-Hitter: Court Finds “Artificial or Prerecorded Voice” Is Not a Legal Conclusion (But “Predictive Dialer” and “ATDS” Are!)

Train Kept-A Rollin: District of Maryland Joins Growing List of Courts to Reject Marks, Stays Case Pending Fourth Circuit Action.

TCPA in Review: Updated ATDS Scorecard Shows Marks Approach Losing Ground– But “Capacity” And “System” Vagueness Remains

Revolution Brewing?: California District Court Dismisses TCPA Claim for Lack of ATDS Allegations—Cites Statutory Definition and Not Marks for ATDS Standard

LESSONS IN TCPA PLEADING: PARROTING STATUTORY LANGUAGE WON’T FLY

TCPA Vagueness In Action: Three New Decisions Issued on the Same Day Apply Three Different ATDS Standards to Text Message Platforms—And So It Goes

R.I.P. 2003 and 2008 Predictive Dialer Rulings: District Court Reverses TCPA ATDS Ruling—Sinks Final Nail into Coffin of Once Popular TCPA Argument

Wither Marks v. Crunch: District Courts In Florida And Texas Hold Random Or Sequential Number Generation Is Required Exactly One Year After The Ninth Circuit’s Troubling Decision.

REPUBLISHED: Happy First Birthday to Marks–Taking Stock of TCPAWorld One Year After the TCPA ATDS Decision That Changed Everything

TCPA Calm Before the Storm?: Another ND Ill Case Applies Statutory Definition—But all Eyes Are On Gadelhak