La-Z-Boy class action alleges claims retailer sends unsolicited text messages

La-Z-Boy text messages class action lawsuit overview: 

• Who: Julie Lanicek filed a class action lawsuit against La-Z-Boy Inc. 
• Why: Lanicek claims La-Z-Boy sent unsolicited telemarketing text messages without consent to consumers with numbers listed on the National Do Not Call Registry. 
• Where: The class action lawsuit was filed in Michigan federal court. 

La-Z-Boy sends unsolicited telemarketing text messages without first obtaining express written consent required to do so, a new class action lawsuit alleges. 

Plaintiff Julie Lanicek claims La-Z-Boy, beginning in February and March of this year, sent or caused to be sent multiple telemarketing text messages to her cell phone number listed on the National Do Not Call Registry. 

Lanicek argues she had no existing business relationship with La-Z-Boy prior to receiving the allegedly unsolicited text messages, which she claims were sent in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). 

“The TCPA’s implementing regulation … provides that ‘[n]o person or entity shall initiate any telephone solicitation” to ‘[a] residential telephone subscriber who has registered her or her telephone number on the national do-not-call registry,” the La-Z-Boy class action states. 

Lanicek wants to represent a nationwide class of consumers who, within the past four years, were sent more than one text message by or on behalf of La-Z-Boy within any 12-month period to a number on the National Do Not Call Registry. 

La-Z-Boy unsolicited text messages an ‘invasion of privacy,’ says class action

Lanicek argues the unsolicited telemarketing text messages allegedly sent by La-Z-Boy resulted in the “invasion of privacy, harassment, aggravation, and disruption of the daily life of thousands of individuals.” 

“Defendant’s unsolicited text messages caused Plaintiff actual harm, including invasion of her privacy, aggravation, annoyance, intrusion on seclusion, trespass, and conversion,” the La-Z-Boy class action states. 

The plaintiff is demanding a jury trial and requesting declaratory and injunctive relief along with an award of actual and statutory damages for herself and all class members. 

A separate class action lawsuit was filed against La-Z-Boy in December 2022 by a consumer claiming the furniture company secretly and illegally reported the identities and media-viewing activity of website visitors with Facebook. 

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The plaintiff is represented by Andrew J. Shamis of Shamis & Gentile PA. 

The La-Z-Boy texts class action lawsuit is Lanicek v. La-Z-Boy Inc., Case No. 2:23-cv-12203, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

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