Allied Interstate TCPA Lawsuit Filed over Alleged Robocalls

A California resident recently filed an Allied Interstate TCPA lawsuit against the debt collection company, alleging it violated federal telemarketing laws.

The plaintiff, Miguel Napoles, alleges in his Allied Interstate TCPA lawsuit that he began receiving calls from the debt collection company in April 2017 over an alleged debt.

Allied Interstate allegedly placed these calls from a number of different phone numbers, using what is known as an “automatic telephone dialing system,” or autodialer. Autodialers may dial numbers at random or in sequence, or may use a prerecorded voice.

Not only were these calls annoying, repetitive, and made without Napoles’s prior express consent, the Allied Interstate lawsuit notes, but Napoles also incurred charges for the incoming calls. The Allied Interstate TCPA lawsuit claims that this practice was unreasonable, constituting harassment or abuse.

Napoles filed his class action Allied Interstate TCPA lawsuit on behalf of himself and anyone else who may be in a similar situation with the company. Proposed Class Members are those in the U.S. who have received autodialer calls from Allied Interstate without prior express consent in the four years leading up to this lawsuit.

The Allied Interstate TCPA lawsuit was filed on Oct. 25, 2017 on multiple counts, including negligent and willful violations of the TCPA, as well as violations of the Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

Basics of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act, or TCPA, was first enacted back in 1991. The TCPA was intended to protect consumers from unwanted solicitation through technology. While the TCPA has always focused on the placement of unwanted robocalls, or the use of an auto dialer or pre-recorded messaging system to contact consumers who have not given their explicit permission to receive such calls, it has further expanded through the years as new technology has emerged. With the advent of cell phones, the TCPA has grown to include text messaging as well as autodialed calls.

Civil Lawsuits Under the TCPA

According to the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, reports of TCPA violations are extremely common. The FCC received more than 215,000 individual TCPA complaints in 2014 alone.

Filing a TCPA lawsuit over unwanted autodialer calls or texts can help force companies to comply with TCPA rules. Taking action may also reward consumers with a set amount of award money per individual violation.

If you have received autodialer calls or calls made with prerecorded messages from a company like Allied Interstate without having first given permission, you may be able to receive compensation per violation. Violations deemed knowing or willful may qualify for hundreds of dollars each in statutory damages.

The Allied Interstate TCPA Lawsuit is Napoles v. Allied Interstate, et al., Case No. 2:17-cv-07815, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

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If you were contacted on your cell phone by a company via an unsolicited text message (text spam) or prerecorded voice message (robocall), you may be eligible for compensation under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

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