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Real Estate Company Reaches $40 Million TCPA Settlement

Real estate franchisor Keller Williams agreed to settle a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class action for $40 million. The settlement is in response to complaints covering a wide variety of alleged violations—National Do Not Call (DNC) Registry violations, internal DNC list violations, prerecorded voice violations, and automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS) violations.

Pennsylvania AG Sues Marketer for Supplying Leads to Robocallers

Last week, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced that he had filed a lawsuit against a digital marketer for generating leads that allegedly resulted in “hundreds of thousands of unwanted robocalls to be placed to Pennsylvania consumers.” Shapiro’s lawsuit alleges that Fluent, Inc. and its subsidiaries “collected personal information, including telephone numbers, and that was then sold to telemarketing companies.”

July Grab Bag

The FCC and Ohio AG go after a robocaller, Perrong sues Oz, and the DC Circuit upholds the TRACED Act's changes to TCPA exemptions.

FCC Partners With States for Robocall Enforcement

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been adopting a new strategy for enforcing robocall regulations that involves signing Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) with state attorneys general. In recent weeks, the FCC has announced MOUs with multiple states, usually in batches.

FCC Chair Asks Congress for New Robocall Legislation

The four current members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took questions from the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology on March 31. As part of those discussions, FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel suggested that the FCC would benefit from legislation to give the commission additional robocall enforcement powers.