February 10, 2015 In the case of Glauser v. GroupMe, Inc., the District Court for the Northern District of California recently rendered a decision on motion, the focal issue of which was determining whether GroupMe, Inc.’s (“GroupMe”) group mobile messaging application fit within the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (“TCPA”) definition of an autodialer. By way […]
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January 30, 2015 On January 26, 2015, a judge for the Central District of California entered an order preliminarily approving a $2.7 million settlement to resolve a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) class action lawsuit against USCB, Inc. (“USCB”). The Order comes after the Court initially rejected the parties’ first settlement agreement. Following further briefing
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January 22, 2015 In a case brought by the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission back in 2009, the District Court for the Central District of Illinois found Dish Network L.L.C. (“Dish”) liable for tens of millions of calls that violated the Telemarketing Sales Rule (“TSR”). Telemarketing – Proceed with
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January 16, 2015 On January 8, 2015, a class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, alleging that Sirius XM Holdings, Inc. (“Sirius”) had placed numerous unsolicited telemarketing calls to the plaintiff’s cellular telephone using an automatic telephone dialing system in violation of the Telephone Consumer
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December 24, 2014 On December 19, 2014, a class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, alleging that CVS Pharmacy, Inc. (“CVS”) has been sending consumers unsolicited text messages in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”). The TCPA class action lawsuit seeks an unspecified
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December 16, 2014 The United States District Court for the Southern District of California recently granted preliminary approval of a nationwide class action settlement arising under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) in an action against insurance company Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. a/k/a Kaiser Permanente. Multi-Million Dollar TCPA Class Action Settlement In the
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December 5, 2014 On November 30, 2014, a class action complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida against Domino’s Pizza, LLC (“Domino’s”) and mobile marketer MoGreet, Inc. (“MoGreet”) alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”). Specifically, the complaint alleges that Domino’s and MoGreet violated the
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November 24, 2014 Last month, the United States District Court for the Southern District of California dismissed a putative class action filed against Crunch San Diego, LLC (“Crunch”) under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), ruling that Crunch did not use an autodialer to send promotional text messages. On Wednesday, the named plaintiff filed a
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