Courts continue to grapple with issues surrounding Florida’s Telephone Solicitation Act, including what types of claims are sufficient to allege a concrete injury in fact to establish standing under Article III.
In December, the saga continued, with a federal court in Florida finding that the plaintiff did not adequately allege injury despite receiving five unsolicited text messages from the defendant between November 2020 and July 2021. In Muccio v. Global Motivation, Inc., the plaintiff filed a five-count class action complaint alleging violations of the Florida Telephone Solicitation Act (FTSA) and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The defendant filed a motion to dismiss, arguing that the plaintiff failed to allege that she suffered an “injury in fact” sufficient to give rise to Article III standing.
The court agreed with the defendant, citing the framework set forth by the Eleventh Circuit in Salcedo v. Hanna, which found that the receipt of a single unsolicited text message does not give rise to Article III standing in a TCPA class action. Applying Salcedo, the court found that there were no allegations of “financial loss or other pecuniary harm,” nor did plaintiff allege he was unable to use his phone for other functions because of the unwanted messages, or that his cell phone was searched, disposed of, or seized for any length of time.
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