LoanDepot.com Can’t Shake Proposed Robocall Class Action (1)

LoanDepot.com LLC failed to shake off a proposed class action alleging it violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by making robocalls to consumers’ cell phones, after the District of Massachusetts found an unconstitutional provision of the law doesn’t sink the whole statute.

The TCPA makes it illegal to call a cell phone using an automated dialing system except in the case of an emergency, with prior consent, or to collect a debt owed to the U.S.

“Two circuit courts and a number of district courts, including a different session of this Court, have already concluded that the government-based debt exception ...