July 10, 2020
From a Maryland federal judge recognizing the value of personal data in today's economy to a Virginia court sending companies scrambling to keep post-data breach discussions secret, it's been a busy few months in cybersecurity and privacy litigation. Here are five rulings worth revisiting as we head into the year's second half.
March 19, 2020
Consumers have lost their last-ditch effort to persuade the Seventh Circuit to reinstate their Telephone Consumer Protection Act suit over AT&T text ads, as the court said Thursday it would not revisit an earlier decision that shut down the case.
March 06, 2020
The Seventh Circuit too narrowly interpreted the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's autodialer provision when it refused to revive a proposed class action claiming AT&T text ads violate the statute, a consumer said in a petition for en banc review.
February 19, 2020
The Seventh Circuit on Wednesday further widened an appellate court divide over what qualifies as an "autodialer," finding that a dialing system AT&T used to distribute unwanted survey text messages doesn't fall under the disputed statutory term.
February 03, 2020
A proposed class of consumers fighting to revive their Telephone Consumer Protection Act suit over AT&T text ads urged the Seventh Circuit to ignore a recent appeals' court ruling shrinking the TCPA's reach, arguing on Monday that the "potentially unconstitutional" conclusion shouldn't be used "to justify deviating from Congress's intent."
September 27, 2019
A putative class of consumers told the Seventh Circuit Friday that a lower court too narrowly defined "autodialer" when it found a system AT&T used to send out survey text messages didn't violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act because it didn't "randomly or sequentially" choose numbers to contact.
August 23, 2019
The Chamber of Commerce asked the Seventh Circuit Thursday to affirm that AT&T did not violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act when it sent mass texts to customers in Spanish, saying a consumer seeking to reverse the lower court's ruling is pushing a definition of an autodialer that is overly broad.
August 16, 2019
AT&T has asked the Seventh Circuit to reject an appeal of its lower court win in a lawsuit over mass texts sent to customers in Spanish, saying the plain language of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act contradicts consumers' arguments that the texts violated the law.
July 10, 2019
A pair of consumer advocacy organizations want the Seventh Circuit to overturn a ruling that let AT&T Inc. off the hook in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act suit, as they argued that the decision opens the floodgates for solicitors to pester Americans while dodging liability.