Ally Financial Dodges Consumer Claims Over Debt-Collection Calls

Ally Financial Inc. dodged a potential consumer class action alleging its debt-collection efforts violated federal anti-robocall law.

The dialing system involved doesn’t breach the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled Tuesday. The ruling relied on TCPA limits that the U.S. Supreme Court recently set out in a case involving unwanted texts from Facebook Inc.

The decades-old law was aimed at telemarketers that dial wide swaths of numbers at once, not companies that contact specific numbers, the Supreme Court found. The ruling was seen as a win for companies defending against a ...