One Unwelcome Text Enough for TCPA Standing, Fifth Circuit Rules

A single unwanted text message is enough of an injury to give a plaintiff standing to sue 5 Star Nutrition LLC under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Fifth Circuit ruled Wednesday.

Lucas Cranor alleged an “unreasonable interference with a right common to the public” as well as “personal injuries that separate him from the public at large,” Judge Andrew S. Oldham said for the court.

The lower court found that a “single unwelcome text message will not always involve an intrusion into the privacy of the home in the same way that a voice call to a residential line ...