ADVERTISEMENT Ally Financial Dodges TCPA Suit After High Court Ruling Law360 (July 14, 2021, 10:19 PM EDT) -- A Michigan federal judge has axed a putative class action accusing Ally Financial Inc. of placing unwanted debt collection calls, ruling that the company didn't use the type of dialing equipment that the U.S. Supreme Court recently declared triggers liability under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. In a ruling issued Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Paul D. Borman granted Ally Financial's motion to dismiss plaintiff Christine M. Barry's suit alleging that the financial institution violated the TCPA by calling relatives and acquaintances of delinquent car loan borrowers on their cellphones as part of a "scheme" to "pressure the borrowers to make payment on their...