Telephone Consumer Protection Act news: consent requirements for calls and texts, FCC rulemaking, and the class action litigation that follows.
The TCPA turns a marketing text sent without proper consent into statutory damages per message, which is why it drives so much class action volume. This hub tracks FCC rulemaking on consent and revocation, plus the circuit splits that decide who gets sued.
The FCC's 2023 order would have required consumers to consent to telemarketing robocalls one seller at a time, and limited each call's subject matter to the site where consent was given. The Eleventh Circuit vacated both restrictions on January 24, 2025, before the rule took effect, and the Commission removed the text from the CFR in August 2025.
Read more →A February 2024 FCC order codified the right to revoke TCPA consent by any reasonable means, fixed seven per se opt-out words for reply texts, capped the processing window at ten business days, and permitted one confirmation message. The cross-message-type portion of that rule has been waived twice and is now scheduled to take effect January 31, 2027.
Read more →The TCPA converts a single unwanted marketing text into statutory damages with no proof of harm, which is why it produces class action volume out of proportion to its age. This guide covers which calls need which grade of consent, what survived the Supreme Court's narrowing of the autodialer definition, how consent is revoked, and where the exemptions sit.
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