11th District Court of Appeals Reverses District Court Ruling on Unsolicited Fax Lawsuit
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th District reversed and remanded Thursday a 2013 ruling by the U.S. District Court in Miami against Palm Beach Golf Center in its lawsuit against Pompano Beach dentist John Sarris over an unsolicited…
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fax from Sarris. Palm Beach Golf Center claimed the fax violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and that the transmission had clogged the golf center’s phone and fax connections. District Judge Kathleen Williams had ruled in favor of Sarris in a summary judgment. Palm Beach Golf Center claimed in its appeal that it could prove the fax had congested its wireline connections even though employees weren’t at the business when it transmitted. District Judge Robert Hinkle partially dissented in the appeals court’s ruling, saying one unsolicited fax wasn’t sufficient to merit Palm Beach Golf Center’s separate common-law claim. “Surely the days when messages are received this way are near an end,” he said.