Thompson v. Yowell

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the FCC correctly determined in Dish Network that the TCPA allows for vicarious liability
• explaining that “apparent authority requires a manifestation from the principal”
• finding vicarious liability plausibly alleged when defendant hired telemarketer, directed quality, timing, and volume of calls, and provided information regarding nature of pricing to allow telemarketer to route customers to defendant’s insurance agents
• dismissing claim premised on apparent authority theory in part because plaintiffs do not trace their belief about the supposed agency relationship to a manifestation of the alleged principal, rather than a representation made by the alleged agent
• “Plaintiffs’ apparent authority theory against Farmers, moreover, fails for the additional reason that Plaintiffs do not trace any belief they may have about an agency relationship between Farmers and Variable to a manifestation of Farmers (the principal

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