April 2 Hearing Set on Johnson Campaign Committee’s Motion to Dismiss TCPA Suit
U.S. Magistrate Judge Reid Neureiter for Colorado in Denver scheduled an April 2 telephonic hearing at 2 p.m. MDT on the motion by the campaign committee of House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to dismiss a Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint…
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for lack of personal jurisdiction (see 2401180056), said the judge’s minute order Wednesday (docket 1:23-cv-03322). William Hunsaker alleges that the committee, Mike Johnson for Louisiana, inundated his cellphone with at least five text-message solicitations for campaign donations without Hunsaker’s prior consent (see 2312190001). But the committee contends the Denver court “lacks either general or specific personal jurisdiction” over the committee. It also contends that the court has no general jurisdiction over the committee because its affiliations with Colorado aren’t “extensive or unique enough to render the committee at home in Colorado."