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February 7, 2017 A recent Spokeo-based challenge to a plaintiff’s standing in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) lawsuit was denied by a federal court in the Northern District of Illinois.  With the denial of the motion to dismiss, the TCPA lawsuit, which involves allegations that a debt collector’s use of an automatic telephone dialing […]

May 20, 2016 This week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a potentially landmark ruling in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins (No. 13-3339), a case filed under the Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970 (the “FCRA”) but expected to have much wider implications, including for Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) lawsuits. Could Spokeo help defendants in TCPA