Tag Archives: Telecommunications Law

Papa John’s Pizza is facing a $250 million class action lawsuit for spamming its customers’ cell phones with text message advertisements. The suit alleges that the popular pizza chain violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 by sending out half a million unauthorized messages in 2010 to pizza lovers in Washington and other states. Some customers said they were spammed by over a dozen messages in a row, sometimes in the middle of the night. The TCPA specifically bans …

If you have credit, you might have received these voice mails: “This is important information regarding your unsecured debt.” Or maybe you’ve gotten a “special offer” for a cruise or a home security system. The caller sounds like the artificial voice of a robot — and it is. These calls are placed through a machine: an “auto dialer” or “robo caller.” What you may not realize is that those robots and auto dialers are illegal, and you have legal recourse …