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Litigation

Nov. 27, 2014

Companies seek FCC help to block consumer lawsuits

Package delivery companies are allowed to text people when their parcels are arriving without violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. Other industries are asking the Federal Communications Commission for similar assistance.


By Hadley Robinson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Package delivery companies are allowed to text people when their parcels are arriving without violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, regulators decided earlier this year. Other industries, banking and healthcare, have since come knocking, asking the Federal Communications Commission if they too can be exempt from the consumer protection statute that has been the plaintiffs' bars darling in rece...

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