Amy L. Starinieri

Jul 31, 2023 | mondaq.com | Sarah Zielinski |Amy L. Starinieri |Emily Rottmann |Sara Holladay

Once an outlier, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently joined seven of its sister Circuit Courts in holding that receipt of a single, unwanted text message constitutes the concrete injury required for standing in class actions filed under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). In making this ruling, the court effectively receded from its decision in Salcedo v. Hanna, 936 F.3d 1162 (11th Cir. 2019).