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Judge Sets May 28 Discovery Deadline in TCPA Class Action vs. MarketPro

U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher for Maryland in Baltimore set a May 28 discovery deadline in Erin Wilcox and Connie Slingbaum's class action to halt the alleged Telephone Consumer Protection Act wrongdoing of MarketPro Homebuyers, a real estate marketing company…

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and leads generation business (see 2308300002), said the judge’s signed scheduling order Thursday (docket 1:23-cv-02364). May 28 also is the parties’ deadline for filing their joint status report, said the order. The judge will convene a scheduling conference after the status report is filed, it said. Wilcox and Slingbaum allege that MarketPro bombards consumers whose numbers are listed on the national do not call registry with text-message solicitations seeking to buy their homes for cash “as is,” but the plaintiffs say they aren’t, and weren’t, interested in selling their homes and that they didn't consent to receiving the texts.