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· 11/4/2013

Whitaker v. California

Citations

  • 134 S. Ct. 523
  • 187 L. Ed. 2d 372
  • 82 U.S.L.W. 3257
  • 571 U.S. 993
  • 2013 WL 4657500
  • 2013 U.S. LEXIS 7871

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that ownership of a fax machine is not a prerequisite for standing under the TCPA
  • affirming class... certification :in a TCPA class action involving 10,145 persons and explaining that recipients “of faxes who don’t have rights under 'the [TCPA] just wouldn’t be entitled to share in the damages awarded to the class by a judgment or settlement”
  • “But what the Act prohibits is faxing unsolicited fax advertisements ‘to a telephone facsimile machine.’ ... There is no mention of ownership.”
  • “[N]o monetary loss need be shown to entitle the junk-fax recipient to statutory damages.”
  • “[N]o monetary loss need be shown to entitle the junk-fax recipient to statutory damages.”
  • “[N]o monetary loss need be shown to entitle the junk-fax recipient to statutory damages.”

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