A class of consumers in multidistrict litigation (MDL) recently filed their Motion for Final Approval of a Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action settlement against a debt collection company, Convergent Outsourcing Inc. (“Convergent”).
Between October 2012 and June 2013, the named plaintiffs initiated separate putative class actions throughout the country alleging that Convergent violated the
On November 7, the United States District Court for the Southern District of California granted final approval of the class settlement in Stemple v. QC Holdings, Inc., No. 3:12-cv-01997 (S.D. Cal.). The plaintiff in the case alleged that QC Holdings, a check-cashing and short-term loan company, negligently and willfully violated the Telephone Consumer
In a motion filed in a putative class action pending in California, Facebook, Inc. seeks to dismiss claims under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, arguing, among other things, that the TCPA as applied to Facebook’s “status update” text messages is unconstitutional. The plaintiff in Holt v. Facebook, Inc., No. 3:16-cv-02266-JST (N.D. Cal.),
On October 19, the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico denied defendants’ motion to dismiss a TCPA putative class action on Spokeo grounds.
In LaVigne v. First Community Bancshares, Inc., et al., the plaintiff contends that the defendants called her on her cell phone approximately 195 to 265 times using
On October 12, a Pennsylvania federal court granted final approval of a $5.2 million Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action against Power Home Remodeling Group LLC.
Power Home is a home remodeling company that, according to the class action complaint, uses aggressive telemarketing and door-to-door solicitations to recruit new customers. Plaintiff alleged that Power Home
On October 11, 2016, the District Court for the Northern District of California granted summary judgment to Safeway, Inc. in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) putative class action arising from the receipt of prerecorded telephone messages promoting Safeway’s flu shots.
Plaintiff first received a seasonal flu shot from Safeway in 2014. In connection with
In Practice Management Support Services v. Cirque Du Soleil, Inc., the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois denied the defendants’ motion for summary judgment that followed a Rule 67 motion to deposit $15,000 to moot the plaintiff’s claim for relief under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. The plaintiff seeks, on
U.S. District Judge Cathy A. Bencivengo recently dismissed a plaintiff’s TCPA putative class claim due to lack of standing required under Article III. In Anton Ewing v. SQM US, Inc. et al., No. 3:16-cv-1609-CAB-JLB (S.D. Cal., Sept. 29, 2016), the plaintiff alleged that he received a single survey call made by SQM on Blue
On September 29, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois preliminarily approved a $76 million Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action against several cruise marketing companies in Birchmeier v. Caribbean Cruise Line, Inc.
According to the class action complaint that was filed more than four years ago, a telemarketing company, ESG
On September 28, the United States District Court for the Central District of California preliminarily approved a $10.5 million Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action settlement against Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corporation (“DBCC”). According to the class action complaint that was originally filed in April 2015, DBCC, a seller of credit-building and credibility solutions for