Realtor Texted to Number That Was on DNC Registry for 20 Years: Class Action
Real estate company Sunbelt Homes “routinely violates” the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by sending telemarketing text messages to residential cellphone numbers listed on the national do not call registry, alleged plaintiff Tyra Risher’s class action Thursday (docket 1:23-cv-05178) in U.S.…
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District Court for Northern Georgia in Atlanta. Risher listed her cellphone number with the DNC registry in September 2003, “and has maintained that registration through the present date,” said her complaint. Risher estimates receiving “dozens” of Sunbelt text messages that began in August from a “rotating series” of phone numbers on her cellphone that pitched her on Sunbelt’s services to sell her home, it said. Risher didn’t give Sunbelt “prior express invitation or permission” to send text message solicitations to her cellphone, it said. She suffered “actual harm as a result of the text messages at issue in that she suffered an invasion of privacy, an intrusion into her life, and a private nuisance,” it said. She also suffered “additional harm due to her frustration and difficulty in identifying the entity and persons responsible” for the unwanted text messages, it said. Sunbelt knew or should have known that Risher listed her cellphone number with the DNC registry roughly two decades before the text-messaging began, it said.