Bradford and Bradley — Redefining TCPA Consent in Some Courts

Earlier this year, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dropped a bombshell with its decision in Bradford v. Sovereign Pest Control of Texas. The Fifth Circuit reshaped the TCPA landscape when it held that for purposes of the TCPA’s pre-recorded call to cell phone provisions, “[w]hether . . . pre-recorded calls . . . qualif[ied] as telemarketing or informational calls, those calls required only prior express consent.” In other words, pre-recorded calls to cell phones that qualify as... By: Mintz - Technology, Communications & Media