Class Action Alleges Auto Finance Company ‘Routinely Violates’ TCPA
Auto finance company Regional Acceptance “routinely violates” the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by using an artificial or prerecorded voice for the nonemergency calls it places, or causes to be placed, to cellphone numbers without the recipients’ prior express consent, alleged…
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plaintiff D’Angelo Portis’ class action Thursday (docket 5:23-cv-01413) in U.S. District Court for Northern Alabama in Huntsville. Portis alleges receiving nearly five dozen calls from Regional Acceptance or its third-party vendor between March 29 and June 13, also seeking to reach a party named James, who he doesn’t know, said his complaint. On at least three separate occasions, Portis answered the calls and informed the company it was phoning the wrong number and demanded that the calls stop, but they nevertheless continued, it said. The Huntsville resident alleges he incurred “actual harm” as a result of the calls “in that he suffered an invasion of privacy, an intrusion into his life, and a private nuisance,” it said.