Regent University Answers TCPA Class Action by Denying Any ‘Wrongdoing’
Regent University “denies any violations, liability, damages or wrongdoing” under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, said its answer Friday (docket 2:23-cv-00480) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia in Norfolk to plaintiff Maxx Lyman’s Sept. 27 class action. Lyman alleges…
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that Regent “routinely violates” the TCPA by using an artificial or prerecorded voice to place nonemergency telemarketing calls to cellphone numbers, without recipients’ prior express consent and often to wrong or reassigned numbers (see 2309280003). “To the extent that any violations are established, which is denied, any such violations were not intentional,” said Regent’s answer. Regent has established and implemented “reasonable practices and procedures to effectively prevent a violation of the TCPA,” it said. To the extent that Lyman wasn’t the intended recipient of the alleged calls, Lyman “has no standing” to assert the TCPA claims, it said. Regent asserts it had consent to call the number, said its answer.