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· 5/11/2012

Soppet v. ENHANCED RECOVERY CO., LLC

Citations

  • 679 F.3d 637
  • 2012 WL 1650485
  • 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 9560

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • recognizing that “an automated call to a cell phone adds expense to annoyance”
  • defining “current subscriber” as “the person who pays the bills or needs the line in order to receive other calls”
  • explaining with respect to the cellular telephone line provisions that “called party” means “the person subscribing to the called number at the time the call is made”
  • noting split between the Seventh and Eleventh Circuits and the Second and Ninth Circuits
  • “‘called party’ in § 227(b)(1) means the person subscribing to the called number at the time the call is made”
  • “For cell service, the subscriber and the person who answers almost always are the same, given the norm that one person does not answer another’s cell phone.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Easterbrook, Flaum, Wood

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