Alerts8.5.20

Sixth Circuit Broadens Application of TCPA to Include More Predictive Phone Dialers – For Now

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Highlights

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit says predictive dialers that create and call a stored list of phone numbers are subject to TCPA

This makes the third federal appeals court to reach this holding so far, across the country

Human involvement in creating lists of numbers to call or making the calls should be considered to help ensure compliance with TCPA 


The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in Allan v. Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, became the third federal appeals court to expand the scope of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) to include predictive dialers that create and call a stored list of phone numbers. 

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