Federal court illustrates how to get at companies that aid and abet unwanted phone calls
- Peter Schneider
- Oct 9, 2025
- 2 min read
A lot of telemarketers are assetless fly by night operations so that they appear useless to sue, and as such they generally really are smaller operations who depend on others to help generate their phone calls.
Smart plaintiffs like Jay Connor don't just name the telemarketer, they look at naming those to aid and abet the unwanted calls like Mr. Connor did in Connor v. Servicequick Inc., 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 199578, 2025 LX 416970. He didn't just name the entity that allegedly initiated the calls (ServiceQuick), he also named the platform that allegedly helped ServiceQuick make the calls, Woosender.
This is a part 2 of a related story about how to count text messages, but to quickly summarize the case, Mr. Connor got two text messages while his number was listed on the national do not call registry. ServiceQuick moved to dismiss under the one-text-or-two argument, but Woosender also wanted out because under their argument, they were just a platform ServiceQuick used but they wanted immunity from the suit as a common carrier.
Mr. Connor alleged "Woosender is liable as a platform for initiating the text message," not only because Woosender was "'involved in the calling conduct,' and "physically sent the messages at issue" from Woosender's phone number, but that Woosender's messaging service:
"goes [f]ar beyond merely providing the platform that enables them to send messages" and includes "actually setting up and providing intimate support for their customers' campaigns and strategies," Plaintiff further alleges that ServiceQuik "used the services provided by Defendant [Woosender] to send out the text message blasts, such as the one Plaintiff received" and that it was Woosender that actually "sent" the texts at issue. These allegations are sufficient to establish a "direct connection" between Woosender and the transmission of the at issue texts Plaintiff received. In re Dish Network, 28 F.C.C. Rcd. at 6575.
Woosender is probably a lot easier to collect from than ServiceQuick and plaintiffs in Mr. Connor's position might think over a similar strategy of pulling in the actual initiator of the unwanted calls.
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