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Using AI to do your legal research is playing with fire - a cautionary tale
Please keep in mind that I don't post this to make fun of anyone. The telephone consumer protection act was written and intended for...

Peter Schneider
Jul 206 min read
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Dishonest telemarketing defendants - what can you do?
Yes yes I get it, dishonest and telemarketing defendant will come off as redundant to many people. But there are different levels of...

Peter Schneider
Jul 193 min read
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Personal jurisdiction in TCPA lawsuits - looking at Born v. Celtic Mktg. LLC
Many telemarketing cases involve pulling defendants from out of your jurisdiction into your local court. In the ninth circuit, one of the...

Peter Schneider
Jul 107 min read
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Get your TCPA trebled damages
The holy grail of TCPA lawsuits is getting the trebled damages. The TCPA plaintiff in Tatum vs. New York Tribeca Group , 2025 WL 1864961...

Peter Schneider
Jul 77 min read
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Sixth circuit breaths a smidge of life into ATDS TCPA claims
The telephone consumer protection act prohibits using automatic telephone dialing systems - equipment that can to store or produce...

Peter Schneider
Jul 34 min read
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Is this setting up a new telemarketing scam, or preventing them?
There is a text message case out there that says basically that if you reply STOP to a telephone solicitor, they get one last 'free'...

Peter Schneider
Jul 13 min read
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Federal judge runs interfearance for telemarketer
Judges all too often use their power to protect telemarketers and here is what appears another blatant example. Luckau v. Sunrun , 2025...

Peter Schneider
Jul 14 min read
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Washington State's CEMA prohibits the use of any false or misleading information in the subject line of a commercial e-mail
Washington State's Commercial Electronic Mail Act doesn't just apply to text messages, but can also apply to emails . It is a law that...

Peter Schneider
Jun 304 min read
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Oregon district court denies telemarketer's cell-phones aren't residential phone lines MTD with a recitation of caselaw
Oregon federal court isn't a hot bed of TCPA action, so it was nice to see it slap down a TCPA defendant's motion to dismiss with a nice...

Peter Schneider
Jun 296 min read
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Discover Telemarketing Scams and Their Scripted Calls
Do you recognize one of these telemarketing scripts? These are recent robocalling scripts that we are actively tracking. We are either in...

Peter Schneider
Jun 284 min read
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Unethical TCPA defense attorneys - what can you do PART 2?
This is part of of what might be a long running series of what to do when dealing with unethical TCPA defense attorneys. See part 1 here...

Peter Schneider
Jun 284 min read
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Stop the insanity! Don't be fooled by shiny badges and pop up "chat" agents on law firm websites
Anyone watching television late at night in the 1990's will remember Susan Powter's "stop the insanity" infomercials. Ostensibly a weight...

Peter Schneider
Jun 283 min read
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Give the right vibe when representing yourself in a TCPA lawsuit
The telephone consumer protection act was envisioned as a law where normal citizens would bring telemarketers to account in court. The...

Peter Schneider
Jun 275 min read
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Force your TCPA defendant to sign his interrogatory lies under oath
Your telephone consumer protection act lawsuit is likely to involve you propounding interrogatories to your TCPA defendant - a written...

Peter Schneider
Jun 254 min read
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TCPA Defendant wants to stay discovery pending 12(b)(6) motion
TCPA defendants HATE discovery and almost reflexively file 12(b)(6) motions to dismiss. Then they frequently try to stay discovery while...

Peter Schneider
Jun 2410 min read
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Oregon non-profit hospitals can't send you to collections until they consider your financial status
Similar to Washington State's law on sending patients to collections without considering their financial situation , Oregon also has a...

Peter Schneider
Jun 236 min read
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Federal judge spanks collection agency
I ran across a great case I had to share Ladunskiy v. Anderson & Assocs. Credit Servs., LLC, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 116636, 2025 LX 106701...

Peter Schneider
Jun 204 min read
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Can your TCPA defendant blow off imperfect discovery requests?
There are many pro-se telephone consumer protection act plaintiffs going after illegal calls in civil lawsuits, and discovery is...

Peter Schneider
Jun 209 min read
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Another bank wrong number TCPA lawsuit
Ever since wrong number telephone consumer protection act case N. L. v. Credit One Bank, N.A., 960 F.3d 1164, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 17434 ...

Peter Schneider
Jun 173 min read
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Sixth circuit court of appeals overrules trial court, finds that telemarketers are telemarketers
In a ruling that should not have surprised anyone, the sixth circuit court of appeals just released an opinion finding that those who...

Peter Schneider
Jun 174 min read
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