Albuquerque Stops Bid to Revive Covid-19 Robocall Class Action

The City of Albuquerque demonstrated that a federal district court correctly dismissed a proposed class action alleging that the city unlawfully used robocalls to invite residents to virtual town hall meetings during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Plaintiff Gerald Silver failed to show that the city violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which has an emergency purposes exception to its general ban on robocalls, Judge Allison H. Eid of the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed.

The city’s robocalls fell within that exception because it made calls to inform citizens that it would hold town halls virtually, which was ...