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Although there have been a couple of notable exceptions, most multi-million dollar TCPA settlements go sailing through approval. When they do get hung up, it is usually because the dollars aren’t quite multi-million enough.
But in a new decision out of Washington a district court has rejected a class settlement because the class definition was not based on clearly-defined objective criteria—specifically, it included reference to the TCPA’s amorphous “automated telephone dialing system” definition.
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