TCPA & Teleservices

Breaking: Supreme Court Punts on Whether Courts Must Unwaveringly Follow FCC Orders

This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to answer the question of whether federal courts have the power to scrutinize FCC orders.  In the decision being challenged, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the trial court must follow a 2006…

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North Carolina District Court: Clear Statutory Meaning of ATDS is “Snow” Joke

"Plaintiff's TCPA claim fails as a matter of law because plaintiff does not allege that the text messages she received were sent using equipment which has the capacity to store or produce numbers to be called using a random or sequential number…

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Ninth Circuit Tells Facebook to Be Less Social When it Comes to Texting

In April 2019, the Fourth Circuit held that the government debt collection exemption, found within the 2015 amendments to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA"),

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FCC Votes to Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls by Default

The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) voted yesterday to allow telecom carriers to “block by default” illegal or unwanted calls to their subscribers. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai released the proposed

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M&S and PACE Respond to FCC Declaratory Ruling on Robocalls

Serving as General Counsel to the Professional Association for Customer Engagement ("PACE"), M&S filed a letter this week with the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") regarding its recently released

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Senate Passes Robocall Bill

The U.S. Senate passed

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FCC Chairman Proposes Default Call Blocking to Combat Robocalls
FCC Chairman Proposes Default Call Blocking to Combat Robocalls

FCC Chairman Proposes Default Call Blocking to Combat Robocalls

* UPDATED May 20, 2001: View the Declaratory Ruling and Third Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

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Fourth Circuit Strikes Down TCPA’s Government Debt Collection Exemption

The 2015 amendments to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) allowed calls to collect debts owed to or guaranteed by the federal government to be exempt from regulations on automatic telephone dialing systems (“ATDS”). A group of political organizations subsequently filed suit…

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