Dish Seeks Dismissal of Internal Do-Not-Call Claims in Class-Action Fight

Dish Network's internal do-not-call (IDNC) list is two separate, distinct lists -- phone numbers for do-not-call requests made to it and numbers for do-not-call requests made to retailers that then shared the numbers with the company -- and a Telephone Consumer Protection Act class-action complaint improperly conflates them, Dish said in a brief (in Pacer) filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Greensboro, North Carolina. Dish dealer Satellite Systems Network (SSN) had no relationship with other retailers on that list or any obligation to honor do-not-call requests made to other retailers, so there's no basis for IDNC class claims against SSN, Dish said, asking that any IDNC class claims based on the retailer list be rejected or that a question be added to the verdict sheet that would let a jury do that. Counsel for plaintiff Thomas Krakauer didn't comment Tuesday.