This is the way Barr v. AAPC ends
This is the way Barr v. AAPC ends
This is the way Barr v. AAPC ends
Not with a bang but with a whimper.

Back in April, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed into law several amendments to the state’s existing law that regulates telemarketing, the Virginia Telephone Privacy Protection Act. Those amendments take effect July 1, 2020.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a Declaratory Ruling holding that click-to-text platforms will not be considered to be Automatic Telephone Dialing Systems (ATDS) if the phone number is manually added each time.

The entire telemarketing industry is awaiting the Supreme Court’s decision in AAPC v. Barr, the case that very may well invalidate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) in its entirety. However, the possibility that the main federal enforcement mechanism for regulating telemarketing may soon disappear is no reason for marketers to become lax in their compliance efforts.

While this is not the Supreme Court ruling that everybody in the industry is waiting to hear, the Court did hand down a ruling Monday that could have potential consequences for telemarketers. In Seila Law LLC v.

State Restricted Do Not Call Dates

July 3, 2020 – Independence Day Observed

• Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah

July 4, 2020 – Independence Day

• Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah

July 24, 2020 – Pioneer Day

• Utah

Canadian Restricted Do Not Call Dates

July 1, 2020 – Canada Day

• National

While everybody waits to see if the government-backed debt exemption leads to the Supreme Court potentially invalidating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) entirely, a district court somewhat surprisingly decided to enforce that same debt exemption.

As we enter the summer of an election year, we are seeing further evidence of how the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) poses risks for political campaigns. This week, a TCPA class action was filed against the erstwhile presidential campaign of Vermont senator Bernie Sanders.

Craig Cunningham is among the most notorious serial plaintiffs in consumer protection law, but his most recent attempt to enrich himself thanks to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) has been unsuccessful.