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Telemarketing Connections Newsletter

Our newsletter that is free Connections, provides a very important snapshot of the very most timely dilemmas of concern to your industry.

Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) has required comment that is public exactly just how it must control illegal robocalls to hospitals. Responses are due by February 1, 2021. See

Federal Trade Commission

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has posted new civil penalty amounts for violations of the rules including actions for unjust misleading trade methods often utilized in telemarketing instances. The maximum penalty per breach for the unjust misleading work happens to be $43,280. See .

Comment: If the FTC considers each call to be a breach, these penalties that are civil be ruinous. Therefore it is vital to examine conformity utilizing the Telemarketing product product Sales Rule although it is not likely to be utilized in a class that is civil such as the phone customer Protection Act (“TCPA”) therefore commonly is.

Florida

A Florida court has enforced an arbitration contract against a plaintiff whom defaulted on a car loan, then alleged calls to gather the car loan violated the Fair Debt Collection techniques Act (“FDCPA”) therefore the TCPA. Grand v. Fast Automotive Loans, Inc.

Remark: It is essential that your particular agreements with customers have enforceable arbitration clauses to stop nuisance and worse, TCPA allegations. Please contact me personally if you want us to examine your agreements pertaining to this matter.

Maine

A court has denied an expert se TCPA plaintiff’s claim in order to register their suit underneath the TCPA and FDCPA minus the filing cost. Strange v. Juiceman.

Maryland

Another regular TCPA plaintiff Michael Worsham has lost a claim against Discount energy, Inc. Worsham v. Discount Energy, Inc. The defendant argued their 17-count grievance considering seven phone phone phone calls neglected to state a claim in breach associated with TCPA or the Maryland phone customer Protection Act because he asserted “absolutely no facts to aid [the] allegation that [defendant] utilized an [automatic phone dialing system].”

Comment: Worsham is really an attorney that is disbarred now files pro se situations by himself behalf.

Nevada

a vegas marijuana dispensary is currently a defendant in a TCPA class action after it texted customers that has provided their phone number into the company once they visited to shop for cannabis. Stanley, et al. v. Terratech.

Comment: If, as alleged, the plaintiffs supplied their number as a disorder to enter the shop, it’s not previous express permission since the quantity ended up being supplied to not ever facilitate interaction but also for another restricted function. In the event that you want to count on this type of previous express permission, you ought to make certain you usually do not produce limitation that could enable a plaintiff to claim a supply to your cell phone number is perhaps not previous express permission.

New Hampshire

The brand new Hampshire home is considering a bill (HB 510) which may change the state’s automated telephone dialing unit statute to permit prerecorded calls just for crisis purposes or with previous consent that is express.

Ny

A bill happens to be proposed into the ny Senate (SB 1349) which will require organizations make open to customers totally free use of all clients’ private information retained by the company in the event that company provides that private information to virtually any party that is third. The limitation just isn’t limited by companies that offer customer information, in other words. any kind of sharing would trigger the notice requirement.

Texas

A judge has permitted a fraudulence counter-claim to proceed against Craig Cunningham, a frequent TCPA pro se plaintiff. Cunningham v. United States Of America Auto Protection. The defendant alleged plaintiff made “material and constant false representations … that he intended [defendant] to are based upon. he knew had been false and”

Comment: Plaintiffs frequently will “play along” with telephone calls providing information that is false create later on calls. This situation might be a defense that is important such instances.