Venkat Balasubramani writes:
We’ve blogged a bunch about text spam lawsuits in general, and about those against Yahoo! as well. Most recently, a judge denied Yahoo!’s request to dismiss a lawsuit relating to IM-to-SMS functionality. (See “TCPA Claim Over Yahoo!’s IM to SMS Messaging Survives Summary Judgment.”)
In contrast to the result in the California case, in federal court in Pennsylvania, Yahoo! prevailed in a putative class action alleging that its email-to-SMS functionality violated the TCPA.
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