In recent years, there has been a heightened focus on the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and a boom in TCPA litigation. The formula for recovery may seem simple and with no statutory cap, class action damages under the TCPA can add up quickly.
Since Congress first passed the TCPA in 1991, the statutory definition of
While telemarketers, debt collectors and others wait for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to answer technical questions such as “EXACTLY what is an autodialer,” the FCC has just made clear that the agency, at least, knows one when it sees one! In companion orders released on Friday (3/15/13), the FCC issued citations to two robocallers
This post was written by Amy S. Mushahwar.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) acted today to tighten its rules under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and conform them, to the extent possible, with the more stringent rules already in place at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) under the Telephone Sales Rule (TSR). This change
This post was written by Kevin Xu and John Hines.
On February 22, 2011, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) filed a complaint against Phillip A. Flora (“Flora”) for an operation that allegedly blasted consumers with millions of illegal spam text messages, including many messages that deceptively advertised a mortgage modification website called “Loanmod-gov.net.” The FTC