Leah Dempsey
ACA International
Washington, DC
Leah Dempsey has a career marked by success as an advocate for the financial services industry, committed to advancing their priorities at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Federal Communications Commission, other federal agencies, and on Capitol Hill. Dempsey was recognized by The Hill as a Top Lobbyist in 2020 noting that, “The ranks of policy experts and influencers run deep in Washington, but these are the people who stand out for delivering results for their clients in the halls of Congress and in the administration.”
In her role as Vice President and Senior Counsel for Federal advocacy at ACA International, Dempsey leads efforts to develop and implement ACA’s federal advocacy agenda in Washington, DC. She writes and speaks frequently about the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, Unfair Deceptive Abusive Acts and Practices, and federal rules and legislation impacting the ac
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On April 1, 2021, the Supreme Court released its highly anticipated and unanimous decision in
Facebook v. Duguid, resolving a long-standing circuit split on the definition of an automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS or autodialer) under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Reversing the Ninth Circuit, the Court concluded that merely having the capacity to store numbers and dial them automatically is not enough to make a device qualify as an ATDS. Although this new clarity regarding the definition of an autodialer will help entities ensure compliance with the TCPA, it does not signify an end to TCPA policies or litigation.
The ATDS Debate and How We Got Here
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To many, robocalls have become one of the more annoying aspects of modern communications. Last year, the United States Supreme Court noted that in 2019 the federal government received 3.7 million complaints about automated calls. Now, in
Facebook, Inc. v. Noah Duguid, et al., 592 U. S. (2021), a long-awaited decision intended “to resolve a conflict among the Courts of Appeals regarding whether an autodialer must have the capacity to generate random or sequential phone numbers” to violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA), the Supreme Court of the United States has answered with a clear and unambiguous “yes.”
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the reach of the class action, especially in the wake of the
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article examines those features and the problems they present, and
discusses how they can be leveraged in the defense of class
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