Ramaswamy Campaign Committee Moves to Transfer TCPA Case to Different Judge
Vivek 2024, the presidential campaign committee of Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, seeks to stay Phillip Woods’ Telephone Consumer Protection Act case and transfer the proceedings to a different Arizona district judge, Steven Logan, said the committee’s motion Tuesday (docket 2:23-cv-01958). Woods…
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doesn’t oppose the motion, said the committee. The TCPA case that Logan is presiding over, Howard v. Republican National Committee (docket 2:23-cv-00993), “calls for determination of substantially the same questions of the law” as in the Woods case, said the motion. Both cases concern the same provisions of the TCPA, specifically deciding if a text message that includes a video file falls within the TCPA’s definition of an artificial or prerecorded voice call, it said. Both cases also involve political defendants, albeit different organizations, and both are represented by the same counsel from the law firm Holtzman Vogel, it said. The parties in Howard have fully briefed arguments for a pending motion to dismiss (see 2308250005), said the motion. “Keeping the two cases pending before different judges could potentially lead to conflicting judgments and substantial duplication of judicial resources as two different judges potentially draft opinions surrounding the same legal question,” it said.