Vegas Theater, Twilio Face Certified Robotext Class

Consumers won class certification Jan. 10 of their suit alleging a Las Vegas production company and Twilio Inc. sent unsolicited promotional text messages.

But the class should be narrowed from everyone whose cell phone number the defendants possessed to those who actually received texts, Judge Richard F. Boulware II wrote for the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada.

It would be inappropriate to certify a class that includes members ineligible to recover under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act because they never received texts, the court said.

The class includes the owners of over 120,000 phone numbers who were ...