The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently sent a strong message in enforcing its demands for information from certain VoIP providers. As part of an investigation into alleged robocall violations, the FTC sent letters demanding information from VoIP providers concerning certain telemarketing users. When the service providers failed to comply with the demands, the FTC sued […]
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The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) prohibits the use of an autodialer or prerecorded voice when placing certain calls to consumers’ cellphones without their prior express consent. Recently, the Ninth Circuit clarified that the TCPA prohibits companies from placing all such non-emergency calls to consumers’ cellphones, without prior express consent, and not just those placed
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On November 3, 2020, Election Day, New York Attorney General Letitia James issued a press release addressing suspicious robocalls received by New York residents in the run up to the election. According to Attorney General James, many New Yorkers received automated calls “spreading disinformation and encouraging people to stay home on election day.” If true,
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Last week, the United States Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”) issued a ruling examining the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) exception for robocalls made to collect government debt. The far-reaching effect of the ruling will be to expand the law’s restrictions on robocalls. What are the implications of the SCOTUS ruling on robocalls?
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August 27, 2019 On August 22, 2019, it was announced that 51 state attorneys general and 12 telecommunications service providers (AT&T, Bandwidth, CenturyLink, Charter, Comcast, Consolidated, Frontier, Sprint, T-Mobile, US Cellular, Verizon and Windstream) have collaborated to implement certain anti-robocalling principles intended to protect consumers from the growing scourge of illegal robocalls. In announcing this
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This past Monday, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia upheld a Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) interpretation of the Telemarketing Sales Rule (“TSR”) which held that marketing calls placed through use of soundboard technology constitute “robocalls” under the statute. Although the FTC originally found that telephone calls using soundboard technology do not
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January 18, 2017 Last Friday, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced settlements in two separate robocall lawsuits commenced against businesses and their respective principals for the alleged placement of telemarketing calls to numerous consumers on the National Do Not Call Registry. Most of the defendants in the two robocall lawsuits have agreed to court orders
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July 29, 2016 A federal judge for the District Court in Little Rock, Arkansas ruled this week that a 1981 State law banning political robocalls is unconstitutional. The ruling comes less than a year after a federal court overturned a similar state law ban in South Carolina. Why did the Court find the robocall ban
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