$1 Million TCPA Settlement from Bank of America
A plaintiff filed a class action lawsuit in federal court in Florida on December 31, 2014 alleging that Bank of America, NB Holdings Corporation, and FIA Card Services, N.A.
A plaintiff filed a class action lawsuit in federal court in Florida on December 31, 2014 alleging that Bank of America, NB Holdings Corporation, and FIA Card Services, N.A.
A federal court in Florida granted an order for partial summary judgment in favor of a plaintiff in a TCPA case against Navient Solutions, Inc.
A Los Angeles man filed a class action lawsuit in federal court in California on March 30 alleging that three timeshare companies, World Wide Vacations Inc., RCI LLC, and Interval International Inc., violated provisions of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has given preliminary approval on the proposed class action settlement in the case of Douglas v. The Western Union Company. The agreed upon settlement amount in this case is $8,500,000.
In a well-reasoned order, the court in Sherman v. Yahoo! Inc. has denied the plaintiff’s motion for class certification. The District Court for the Southern District of California reached several decisions in this case that could be very useful for other businesses defending themselves from similar TCPA lawsuits.
On June 1, 2015 the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted AOL’s motion to dismiss a case seeking class action status for alleged TCPA violations based on text messages sent by AOL’s Instant Messenger service (“AIM”), and confirmation text messages sent from AOL to individuals who request not to receive future text messages from AIM.
On May 18, 2015 the U.S. Supreme court announced that they will be hearing an appeal on the case of Campbell-Ewald Company v. Gomez. At issues in this case, is whether a defendant business can terminate a TCPA class action lawsuit by offering the lead plaintiff everything that he could individually recover under the law if he were to win at trial.
Last September a class action lawsuit was filed against Wal-Mart in Florida for allegedly making automated prescription refill calls in violation of the TCPA. A new TCPA lawsuit against Wal-Mart has now been filed in the Northern District of Georgia, and is also seeking class action status.