DirecTV Appealing Class Certification in TCPA Suit

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals approved DirecTV's appeal of a lower court's granting class certification to a Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint against the company (see 2208020038), per a circuit court order entered Oct. 6 in docket 5:17-cv-00179 in U.S. District Court in Wheeling, West Virginia. The case stems from a December 2017 complaint in which consumers accused DirecTV and its authorized dealer representatives of TCPA wrongdoing. U.S. District Judge John Bailey signed an order Aug. 1 certifying the class as including all U.S. persons whose phone numbers were listed on the do-not-call registry and who received more than one telemarketing call within any 12-month period from DirecTV's vendor, AC1 Communications.