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In March 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 10 states sued Cancer Recovery Foundation International, also known as Women's Cancer Fund, and its operator, Gregory B. Anderson.
In Tom v. Delancey Street Group LLC, Case No. 2:26-cv-01150-JMA-ST (E.D.N.Y. Aug. 5, 2026), Judge Joan M. Azrack dismissed a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) do-not-call suit with prejudice.
A fax inviting doctors to a free educational seminar on opioid misuse was not an "unsolicited advertisement" under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has held.
A company that bought part of a business, including its customer fax list, and then faxed an advertisement to more than 11,000 numbers without permission or an opt-out notice was liable for nearly $6 million.
In Moskowitz v. American Savings Bank, F.S.B., 37 F.4th 538 (9th Cir. 2022), the Ninth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for a bank sued under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) over automated replies to text messages, and then reversed an award of attorney's fees that the district court had treated as "costs" under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(d).
A satellite television company that controlled its telemarketing retailer, knew about its violations and kept profiting was liable for the retailer's calls to numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry, and the trial court properly trebled the damages.
A company whose logo appears in an unsolicited fax is not liable under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) unless the fax was sent on its behalf under ordinary agency principles.
On November 18, 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) imposed a $9,997,750 fine on Kenneth Moser and his San Diego-based company, Marketing Support Systems.
The bottom line: a federal grand jury indicted a Rhode Island man on 40 counts for allegedly collecting up-front "tax and fee" payments from victims of a Jamaica-based lottery telemarketing scam.
On July 20, 2020, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota, part of the Department of Justice (DOJ), announced that Wayne Robert Dahl, Jr., 51, pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud before Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in Minneapolis.
A T-Mobile customer who received a "T-Mobile Tuesdays" text offering a free Subway sandwich could not hold Subway liable under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).
A jury found that ViSalus, Inc. placed 1,850,440 prerecorded calls in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), producing a statutory damages award of $925,220,000.
An Oregon consumer filed a putative class action on July 12, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon against insurance brokerage Senior Healthcare Advisors LLC, alleging telemarketing calls to a number on the National Do Not Call Registry.
Agency action. New orders, proposals and enforcement actions by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Court decisions. Rulings from the Supreme Court, the federal courts of appeals and district courts that change how the TCPA is read or applied.
State laws. Recent enactments and amendments to state telemarketing and text message laws.
Practical questions. What a new rule or ruling may mean for consumers and for businesses that call or text.
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