U.S. Supreme Court,
Civil Litigation
Jun. 25, 2019
When the FCC speaks, everyone must listen... maybe
That a district court could not ignore or refuse to follow an order by the Federal Communications Commission related to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act was once sacrosanct. It was, in fact, one of the few things on which all stakeholders — courts, plaintiffs, defendants — agreed. But the U.S. Supreme Court just threw that understanding into question.
Eric J. Troutman
Partner
Squire Patton Boggs LLP
Email: eric.troutman@squirepb.com
UCLA SOL; Los Angeles CA
Eric is the czar of TCPAWorld.com and has served as lead counsel in nearly a hundred putative nationwide TCPA class actions, in addition to defending over a thousand individual TCPA suits in his role as national strategic litigation counsel for major banks and finance companies. He now leads one of the nation's most powerful TCPA defense teams in the firm's Los Angeles office.
That a district court could not ignore or refuse to follow an order by the Federal Communications Commission related to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act was once sacrosanct. It was, in fact, one of the few things on which all stakeholders -- courts, plaintiffs, defendants -- agreed. But the U.S. Supreme Court just threw that understanding into question in $95
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