
Marsha J. Indych
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Mar 13, 2024 |
jdsupra.com | Michael Daly |Marsha J. Indych |Emanuel McMiller
HB 761 amended the FTSA, requiring a 15-day notice-and-cure period before a plaintiff can sue for damages from text message solicitations. HB 761 also stated that it should be applied retroactively to cases that were styled as class actions so long as a class had not been certified before HB 761’s effective date. That retroactivity provision has caused a split between Florida’s federal courts and its state courts.
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May 26, 2023 |
jdsupra.com | Michael Daly |Marsha J. Indych |Emanuel McMiller
Yesterday, Florida’s Governor signed HB 761, which makes significant changes to the Florida Telephone Solicitation Act (“FTSA,” Fla. Stat. § 501.059). HB 761 states that these amendments will not only take effect immediately, but also apply retroactively to any pending FTSA action styled as a class action but was not certified as such before the Governor signed the law.
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May 22, 2023 |
jdsupra.com | Michael Daly |Marsha J. Indych |Emanuel McMiller
Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal recently reversed class certification and directed dismissal, holding that the plaintiff had failed to establish any concrete harm from an alleged violation of the TCPA and thereby lacked standing. Pet Supermarket, Inc. v. Eldridge, No. 3D21-1174, 2023 WL 3327267 (3d Fla. Dist. Ct. App. May 10, 2023).
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May 17, 2023 |
jdsupra.com | Michael Daly |Marsha J. Indych |Emanuel McMiller
Plaintiffs’ attempts to keep FTSA cases venued in Florida state courts are being upended by the Eleventh Circuit’s recent decision to revisit en banc its Article III standing precedent in single-text message cases. Previously, Florida district courts were generally remanding such cases to state court. Since then, a couple of district courts have remanded cases to state court, but several more have stayed cases pending the Eleventh Circuit’s decisions in two pending appeals, Drazen v.
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