D.C. Court of Appeals to Hear Oral Arguments in ACA International v. FCC Case

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in the case of ACA International, et al. v. the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and United States of America.

ACA International will be asking the court to review the FCC’s July 2015 Declaratory Ruling on the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) in order to determine whether the FCC acted reasonably in regulating the way companies call consumers.

ACA and its joint petitioners in the case, such as Portfolio Recovery Associates and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, argue that the FCC’s order “rewrote the TCPA,” “jeopardizes desirable communications that Congress never intended to ban,” and “encourage[s] massive TCPA class actions seeking crippling statutory damages.”

According to the Order on Time for Oral Arguments, each side will get 20 minutes to make their case to the court.

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