TCPA Suit Against DirecTV Granted Class-Action Certification
U.S. District Judge John Bailey in Wheeling, West Virginia, granted class-action status to a Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint against DirecTV. In a docket 5:17-CV-179 order Monday, Bailey said the plaintiffs’ claims "are easily susceptible to resolution on a classwide…
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basis" and if any damages issues require individual inquiry, the damage issues can be bifurcated. The complaint claims DirecTV is vicariously liable for actions of telemarketing firm AC1, which was selling DirecTV subscriptions. Per the order, the class is anyone in the U.S. who had a telephone number on the Do-Not-Call Registry and who received more than one telemarketing call within any 12-month period at any time from AC1 to promote the sale of DirecTV. DirecTV didn't comment Tuesday.