US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

EPIC Files in Support of En Banc Review of FCC Rule That Prohibits Sale of Robocall Consents

March 21, 2025

• Consumer Privacy

• Robocalls

• Updates

YouMail Observes Dramatic Rise in Harmful Robocalls in February 2025

March 13, 2025

• Consumer Privacy

• Robocalls

• Updates

EPIC Joins NCLC-Led Coalition Defending FCC Rule That Prohibits Sale of Robocall Consents

July 26, 2024

In NCLC's brief, joined and filed by EPIC, the consumer advocacy groups argued that tightening consent requirements would limit the onslaught of unwanted telemarketing calls which the FCC's rule achieves. The amicus brief also outlines that the FCC's rule is consistent with comparable rules issued by the Federal Trade Commission and the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, as well as the FCC's own prior rules about consent for non-telemarketing calls.

• Consumer Privacy

• Robocalls

• Updates

EPIC, NCLC Tell Court Not to Deter Consumers From Unmasking Illegal Callers

April 20, 2022

EPIC and the National Consumer Law Center filed an amicus brief in Kenneth Johansen vs. Bluegreen Vacations Unlimited arguing that consumers receiving illegal calls must be allowed to feign interest in a telemarketer’s offerings to discover who is responsible for the illegal call campaign.

• Consumer Privacy

• Robocalls

• Updates

Kenneth Johansen v. Bluegreen Vacations Unlimited, Inc.

April 20, 2022

Whether a consumer is inadequate to serve as a TCPA class representative when, in order to identify the company bankrolling an illegal telemarketing campaign, the consumer feigns interest in the telemarketer’s offer.

• Consumer Privacy

• Robocalls

• Amicus Briefs

Evans v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC

February 15, 2022

Whether the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's autodialer restriction only covers dialers that generate random or sequential telephone numbers.

• Consumer Privacy

• Robocalls

• Amicus Briefs

EPIC and NCLC to Eleventh Circuit: Callers Must Get Consent to Use Some Mass Dialers That Call From List Even Post-Duguid

February 11, 2022

EPIC and the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) filed an amicus brief in Evans v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, arguing that according to the plain language of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), Ocwen violated the TCPA if its dialing system used a number generator to mass dialed people without consent, even if Ocwen called telephone numbers from a stored list.

• Consumer Privacy

• Robocalls

• Updates

Jackson et al. v. McCurry et al.

March 9, 2018

Whether school administrators may access and search the contents of a student's cell phone without consent

• Data Protection

• Fourth Amendment

• Privacy Laws

• Student Privacy

• Amicus Briefs

Perry v. CNN

July 15, 2016

Whether sharing the MAC address and video viewing history collected from a free mobile app violates the Video Privacy Protection Act

• Communications Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Privacy Laws

• U.S. Privacy Laws

• Amicus Briefs