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Wash. Complaint Is 9th TCPA Action Filed vs. DoorDash Since March 2017

DoorDash repeatedly flooded the personal cellphone of married couple LaVonne and Wesley Rodgers with telemarketing calls using an autodialer or an artificial or prerecorded voice, alleged their Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint Monday (docket 3:23-cv-05564) in U.S. District Court for…

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Western Washington in Tacoma. The Longview, Washington, residents weren’t DoorDash customers before they began receiving the calls, nor did they give the company prior express consent to receive any calls, said the complaint. They asked DoorDash “multiple times” to put their number on its internal do not call list and to cease all calls to that number, which DoorDash “failed to do,” it said. Doordash previously was sued for TCPA wrongdoing, so it’s “aware of the TCPA’s prohibitions against the use of automatic dialing systems and artificial or prerecorded voices to make calls to cellular phones without the prior express consent of the called party,” it said. Court records show the Rodgers’ complaint is the ninth action filed against DoorDash for TCPA violations since March 2017.