Compliance Refresher: Why Text Messaging Is Still Risky Post-Facebook
The Supreme Court’s decision in Facebook v. Duguid changed many aspects of Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) compliance.
The Supreme Court’s decision in Facebook v. Duguid changed many aspects of Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) compliance.
Once again, there are a number of notable stories from the past month relating to Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) compliance, Florida Telephone Solicitation Act (FTSA) compliance, and call deliverability that are worth gathering in one blog post.
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.
Last year, HelloFresh entered into a $14 million class action settlement for violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). This week, a court threw out that settlement due to issues relating to the composition of the class and the different kinds of TCPA violations committed by the defendant.
Last week the Ninth Circuit issued a ruling in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class action reversing a lower court decision on the application of the TCPA’s regulations to business-to-business (B2B) text messages.
Earlier this month, a district court in Washington ruled against Robinhood, the stock trading app and brokerage, in its attempts to get a text-message-based class action dismissed. What makes it especially notable is the class action is being brought under Washington’s Consumer Electronic Mail Act (CEMA) rather than the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).