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Class Action in Miami Hits JessicaSimpson.com With TCPA Allegations

Highlands County, Florida, resident Gwendolyn Haviland was inundated with unsolicited telemarketing text messages from the e-commerce site JessicaSimpson.com in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and the Florida Telephone Solicitation Act, alleged Haviland’s class action Tuesday (docket 2:22-cv-14356) in…

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U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Miami. The text message solicitations failed to identify the name of the individual caller, the name of the legal entity on whose behalf the call was being made and a phone number or address where the caller could have been contacted, it said. Haviland “never signed any type of authorization permitting or allowing the placement of a telephonic sales call by text message using an automated system for the selection and dialing of telephone numbers,” it said. JessicaSimpson.com didn't comment.