Quicken Loans Must Face Class Suit Over Automated Text Messages

Quicken Loans Inc.'s lost its argument that a class complaint doesn’t state a claim under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act when a federal Michigan court said the complaint plausibly alleged the offending texts originated from an automated dialing machine.

The plaintiffs, to state a TCPA claim, had to allege Quicken’s texts were unwanted and came from an automatic telephone dialing system that has the capacity to produce telephone numbers using a random or sequential number generator, the opinion by Judge Sean F. Cox of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan said.

Citing cases from some courts ...