October 27, 2017
An attorney representing an objector to Caribou Coffee Co.'s $8.5 million Telephone Consumer Protection Act settlement with consumers should be disqualified for setting up a website that is misleadingly similar to the official settlement class site, the lead plaintiff has told a Wisconsin federal court.
October 03, 2017
Attorneys for a consumer who accused Caribou Coffee Co. Inc. of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by sending unsolicited text messages have asked a Wisconsin federal court for roughly $2.7 million in fees and costs, saying an $8.5 million settlement wouldn't have happened without their hard work.
September 14, 2017
Caribou Coffee Co.'s $8.5 million Telephone Consumer Protection Act settlement with a proposed class of consumers alleging Caribou sent unsolicited text messages presents a "perfect example of today's litigious society and how easily many are 'offended,'" an objector told a Wisconsin federal court Wednesday.
June 13, 2017
Caribou Coffee Co. and the proposed class of consumers who accused it of sending unsolicited text messages that violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act have reached a settlement worth $8.5 million, with the chain agreeing to end its message marketing program as well, according to a Wisconsin federal court filing.
March 09, 2017
A proposed class action accusing Caribou Coffee of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act received the green light Thursday by a Wisconsin federal judge who concluded that a pending challenge to that privacy law in the D.C. Circuit isn't likely to affect the case.
July 18, 2016
Caribou Coffee Co.'s hopes for the D.C. Circuit to swoop in and rescue it from a proposed Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action are misplaced, a fed-up text-message recipient said Sunday, because its technology boils down to an auto-dialer one way or the other.
July 01, 2016
People who got dozens of allegedly unwanted texts from Caribou Coffee Co. Inc. urged a Wisconsin court Thursday not to pause their suit while waiting for the D.C. Circuit to weigh in on autodialer regulations, saying whichever way the appeals ruling goes, Caribou will still have to face the claims.
June 15, 2016
Caribou Coffee Co. Inc. asked a Wisconsin federal court Wednesday to pause a proposed class action alleging the chain violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by sending unsolicited texts until the D.C. Circuit rules on a challenge to the Federal Communications Commission’s expansion of the act.
May 06, 2016
A Wisconsin woman hit Caribou Coffee Co. Inc. with a proposed federal class action Thursday, alleging the coffee chain violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by sending dozens of unsolicited texts to thousands of people who never agreed to receive them.