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Perrong v. Bradford: Legislative Communications Not Covered by the TCPA

A Long-Overdue Bill Targets the Political Robocalls Everyone Hates but No One Regulates

Ecommerce Innovation Alliance

September 16, 2026

Every election season, the same thing happens. Phones ring at dinnertime. A recorded voice launches into a pitch for a candidate, a ballot measure, or a donation. The number is unfamiliar, but the person on the receiving end has no legal recourse. On September 8, 2026, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) introduced H.R. 10310, the Robo Calls Off Phones Act, or the “Robo COP Act,” which would finally close that gap. The Ecommerce Innovation Alliance applauds the Congresswoman for taking on a problem that Washington has managed to ignore for more than twenty years.…

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Specialty Medical Inc. v. Mark Dobronski TCPA case

Fourteen Cases, One Ruling: Oregon Federal Court Slams the Class-Certification Door in Wilson v. Freeway Insurance

Ecommerce Innovation Alliance

August 24, 2026

For nearly two years, EIA members have watched a familiar name appear atop TCPA class action complaints: Chet Michael Wilson. Last week, the fight over whether Mr. Wilson may ever serve as a class representative reached a dramatic inflection point. On August 19th, Judge Michael J. McShane granted Freeway Insurance's motion to deny class certification, denied Mr. Wilson's attempt to voluntarily dismiss his own case, and entered evidence-preservation orders reaching both the plaintiff and a non-party law firm — with a written opinion to follow. …

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Specialty Medical Inc. v. Mark Dobronski TCPA case

Federal Court Gives a TCPA Troll a Taste of His Own Medicine: Specialty Medical Inc. v. Mark Dobronski

Ecommerce Innovation Alliance

March 2, 2026

Two powerful TCPA decisions in three days is not a coincidence you get to write about very often. Just 48 hours after a federal magistrate judge in California denied Jamee Desouza's attempt to scrub her employer's name from the record in Desouza v. Ralph Lauren, a federal judge in Michigan issued an opinion that is, if anything, even more consequential for ecommerce brands tired of playing defense against professional plaintiffs. …

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When the Plaintiff’s Own Exhibit Blows Up Her Argument: Desouza v. Ralph Lauren

When the Plaintiff’s Own Exhibit Blows Up Her Argument: Desouza v. Ralph Lauren

Ecommerce Innovation Alliance

February 26, 2026

Every so often, a TCPA case comes along that reads less like a consumer protection dispute and more like a cautionary tale about the cottage industry of professional TCPA litigation — and what can happen when a plaintiff’s own paper trail tells a story she’d rather keep hidden. Desouza v. Ralph Lauren Corporation d/b/a Polo Factory Stores, is exactly that kind of case. On February 24, 2026, a federal magistrate judge denied the plaintiff’s motion for a protective order — a motion that was remarkable not just for what it sought, but for the glaring irony embedded in it.…

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Perrong v. Bradford: Legislative Communications Not Covered by the TCPA

Third Circuit Rules that Legislative Communications Not Covered by the TCPA

Ecommerce Innovation Alliance

November 3, 2025

A recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Perrong v. Bradford has gained attention from the business and policy community. The case was filed by Andrew  R. Perrong a TCPA plaintiff’s lawyer who, according to one court order, is “a habitual litigant with extensive familiarity with the TCPA” that has engaged in “gamesmanship of the lowest order,”. Perrong has pursued this case in his own name, rather than on behalf of a client, as he has done in dozens of other cases filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.  …

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