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SGS North America Withdraws Petition for Declaratory
Ruling
On March 17, 2021 SGS North America, Inc ( SGS ) filed
a Notice of Withdrawal. SGS will no longer be pursuing its Petition
for Expedited Declaratory Ruling, Or in the Alternative, Request
for Retroactive Waiver. In its Petition, filed December 17,
2018, SGS asked the Commission to clarify the meaning of telemarketing and dual purpose calls with
respect to the prior express written requirements under the
TCPA in order to fix a growing trend of unwarranted
TCPA litigation.
Awaiting Decision (Items on Circulation )
Other Pending Petitions
Petitions Seeking to Establish or Modify Exemptions to TCPA
Consent Requirements
I. New and Noteworthy
III. Other Pending Petitions
b. Petitions Relating to Prior Express Written Consent
c. Petitions Relating to Automatic Telephone Dialing Systems (ATDS)
d. Petitions Relating to Junk Faxing Rules
e. Other Petitions
Kelley Drye’s Communications Practice Group presents this tracker of active Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) petitions before the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”). With the recent increase in litigation regarding alleged violations of the TCPA, many issues relating to the interpretation of the statute have been presented to the FCC by impacted parties. These petitions can be primary jurisdiction referrals or be presented directly by a litigant in a TCPA action. The FCC currently has a number of petitions pending related to TCPA interpretation. The tracker below briefly summarizes each petition and the issues presented in them.
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Advertisement TCPA Regulatory Update Busy End of 2020, Early 2021 as FCC Continues Traced Act Implementation & Takes Other Actions on Robocalls and Spoofing Monday, January 25, 2021
Ending 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” or “Commission”) raced to implement several of the Congressionally imposed TRACED Act (“Act”) deadlines to combat illegal robocalls.
First, on December 29, the FCC adopted a Report and Order implementing Section 8 of the Act, which directs the Commission to ensure that any statutorily permitted exemption of calls from the prior express consent requirement of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) meets certain criteria and codifies certain other exemptions that comply with Section 8. Notably, the FCC chose not to alter the exemption that permitted wireless companies to text their own subscribers without prior express consent. The FCC also reviewed, among others, exemptions on non-telemarketing robocalls ma