telephone-consumer-protection-act

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5568 Donna Marie Conner v. Xfinity, United States General, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-05 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure dismissal-without-prejudice federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether the district court properly dismissed Donna Marie Conner's civil action under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B) and the Telephone Consumer Protection …
24-327 Pulse8, LLC, et al. v. Family Health Physical Medicine, LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-09-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split commercial-advertising fax-transmission statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act unsolicited-advertisement Does the TCPA prohibit sending faxes that do not advertise the commercial availability or quality of any property, goods, or services if plaintiffs al…
24-86 Career Counseling, Inc., dba Snelling Staffing Services v. Amerifactors Financial Group, LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-07-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-feasibility circuit-split class-certification fax-machine fax-machine-definition rule-23 rule-23(b)(3) telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether there is an implied 'administrative feasibility' prerequisite for class certification
23-1226 McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-21 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure district-court fcc fcc-interpretation hobbs-act legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether the Hobbs Act required the district court in this case to accept the FCC's legal interpretation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act
23A839 McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc., et al. v. McKesson Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-13 Presumed Complete agency-deference fcc-ruling hobbs-act judicial-review statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether the Hobbs Act requires district courts to categorically defer to FCC interpretations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act without independ…
23-552 Ambassador Animal Hospital, Ltd. v. Elanco Animal Health Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split fax fcc-regulation hobbs-act junk-fax-prevention-act marketing telephone-consumer-protection-act unsolicited-advertisement Whether the TCPA's definition of 'unsolicited advertisement' permits consideration only of the content on the face of a junk fax or also permits consi…
23-495 Lucine Trim v. Reward Zone USA LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Amici (1) automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split facebook-v-duguid number-generation random-or-sequential-number-generator statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent telephone-consumer-protection-act Does the TCPA's definition of an ATDS require a number generator to generate the numbers themselves?
23A71 Direct Energy, LP v. Matthew Dickson Sixth Circuit 2023-07-25 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing circuit-split concrete-injury-in-fact ringless-voicemail telephone-consumer-protection-act unsolicited-communications Whether receipt of a single unsolicited ringless voicemail or text message constitutes a concrete injury in fact sufficient to establish Article III s…
23-42 Lawrence Pascal v. Concentra, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied autodialer automatic-telephone-dialing-system borden database-applications facebook-v-duguid random-number-generator random-or-sequential-number-generator sequential-number-generator statutory-interpretation telecommunications-law telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether equipment that stores telephone numbers to be called using a random or sequential number generator and dials such numbers qualifies as an auto…
22-920 ViSalus, Inc. v. Lori Wakefield, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights class-action concrete-injury due-process marketing-communications standing statutory-damages tcpa-violation telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether receipt of a phone call after opting in to receive marketing communications is a 'concrete injury in fact' sufficient to confer Article III st…
21-318 Mark Leyse v. Bank of America, National Association Third Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing congress-lawmaking-authority congressional-intent consumer-protection intangible-harms spokeo-v-robins statutory-harm telemarketing-regulation telephone-consumer-protection-act unsolicited-telemarketing whether-congress-has-authority-to-identify-intangible-harms-under-article-iii
21-5372 Jessica Graulau v. Credit One Bank, N.A. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied IFP arbitration arbitration-dispute civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection jury-trial subject-matter-jurisdiction telephone-consumer-protection-act Did the Circuit Court of Appeal violate the U.S. Constitution and federal laws by depriving the petitioner of a jury trial, due process, and equal pro…
20-1684 Sean Hartranft v. Midland Funding, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied civil-procedure debt-collection due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intervention standing telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether the Court of Appeals committed reversible error when it denied Petitioner's Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 24(a) motion to intervene as a ma…
20-723 Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency v. Susan Allan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-11-25 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (3) automatic-telephone-dialing-system civil-procedure federal-regulation number-generation random-or-sequential-number-generator standing statutory-interpretation telecommunications-law telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether the definition of an 'automatic telephone dialing system' (ATDS) in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA) encompasses any devic…
20-418 Melanie Glasser v. Hilton Grand Vacations Company, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split human-intervention predictive-dialer random-or-sequential-number-generator statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether the TCPA's definition of an 'automatic telephone dialing system' encompasses predictive dialers that automatically dial telephone numbers stor…
20-308 La Boom Disco, Inc. v. Radames Duran Second Circuit 2020-09-09 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (3) automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-court-interpretation federal-communications-commission hobbs-act human-intervention random-or-sequential-number-generator statutory-definition telephone-consumer-protection-act Does the statutory definition of ATDS encompass any device that can 'store' telephone numbers, even if the device does not 'us[e] a random or sequenti…
20-209 Ali Gadelhak v. AT&T Services, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Relisted (2) automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split consent database-telemarketing smartphone statutory-interpretation telemarketing telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether the definition of an 'automatic telephone dialing system' (ATDS) under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) encompasses only systems t…
19-631 William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-11-15 Judgment Issued Amici (19) automated-call-restriction constitutional-remedy first-amendment free-speech government-debt-exception political-speech severability statutory-interpretation tcpa telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether the government-debt exception to the TCPA's automated-call restriction violates the First Amendment, and whether the proper remedy for any con…
19-575 Charter Communications, Inc., et al. v. Steve Gallion, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) automatic-dialing-system constitutional-violation content-based-restrictions first-amendment government-debt-collection-exception judicial-remedy ninth-circuit prerecorded-voice severability speech-limitation tcpa telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether the TCPA's prohibitions on calls made using an automatic dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice are unconstitutional content-bas…
19-511 Facebook, Inc. v. Noah Duguid, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-21 Judgment Issued Amici (25)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split content-discrimination first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech government-debt-collection-exception speech-restriction statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether the TCPA's prohibition on calls made using an ATDS is an unconstitutional restriction of speech, and if so whether the proper remedy is to bro…
19-496 DISH Network L.L.C. v. Thomas H. Krakauer, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Fourth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Amici (1) article-iii civil-rights class-action concrete-injury due-process judicial-jurisdiction spokeo-v-robins standing statutory-damages statutory-right telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether a bare violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act constitutes concrete injury for purposes of Article III standing
18-1381 Supply Pro Sorbents, LLC v. RingCentral, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response Waived advertising-space circuit-split commercial-availability fax-advertisement fcc-commentary incidental-advertisement ninth-circuit regulatory-interpretation seventh-circuit standing statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether an 'incidental fax advertisement' is exempt from the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's definition of a 'fax advertisement'
18-1258 Enclarity Inc., et al. v. Matthew N. Fulton Sixth Circuit 2019-03-29 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-procedure commercial-availability commercial-communication commercial-transaction communication-law due-process fax-regulation information-request standing statutory-interpretation telecommunications telephone-consumer-protection-act unsolicited-advertisement unsolicited-faxes Whether faxes that only request information and propose no commercial transaction with recipients are 'advertisements' under the TCPA
18-995 Crunch San Diego, LLC v. Jordan Marks Ninth Circuit 2019-01-30 Dismissed automatic-telephone-dialing-system capacity-to-dial circuit-conflict civil-procedure due-process random-number-generator random-or-sequential-number-generator statutory-interpretation tcpa telemarketing-practices telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in expanding the TCPA's definition of 'automatic telephone dialing system'
18-778 St. Louis Heart Center, Inc. v. Nomax, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights consumer-protection due-process opt-out-notice spokeo-injury standing statutory-damages tcpa-disclosure telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether a failure to disclose information mandated by federal law is a concrete injury in itself, or whether a plaintiff must show additional harm