DirecTV said common-law agency principles should govern the question of...
DirecTV said common-law agency principles should govern the question of whether a call was made “on behalf of” a seller, in an ex parte filing on the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (http://bit.ly/14jHtSZ). But the efficacy of this approach “could be…
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undermined if it is qualified by examples of activities that a reader might interpret as alone sufficient to indicate the existence of an agency relationship,” it said in docket 11-50. The filing expands on issues raised by DirecTV in recent meetings with the FCC, it said. Improperly compromising the principles of common-law agency by including examples “would have real-world consequences for DirecTV and the third party retailers with whom it contracts,” it said. Common-law agency principles “are defined by a large, well-developed body of precedent that needs no further elaboration or examples,” DirecTV said.