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Plaintiff Alleges Roofing Telemarketer Phoned Him 18 Times Within a Week

Blue Hammer Roofing makes or causes to be made telemarketing calls to consumers to solicit business for its services, and does so in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, alleged Preston Tucker’s class action Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-01287) in U.S.…

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District Court for Colorado in Denver. Tucker personally listed his residential phone number with the national do not call registry in August 2021, yet he received 18 telemarketing calls from Blue Hammer or on its behalf between March 29 and April 5, including six calls on a single day, April 4, alleged his complaint. At no point during the relevant time period did Tucker and Blue Hammer “have a prior existing business relationship” permitting the Dallas-based residential and commercial roofing company to make telemarketing calls to the plaintiff’s residential number, it said. The Weld, Colorado, resident never consented to receiving telemarketing calls from Blue Hammer, said the complaint. The defendant or someone acting on its behalf violated Tucker’s privacy by making each of the unwanted telemarketing phone calls, “and they constitute a nuisance as they are annoying and harassing,” it said. Blue Hammer failed to honor the national DNC registrations of individuals’ residential lines while conducting telemarketing campaigns, it said.