Plaintiff Alleges Employee Training Firm Phoned Him 800 Times Using an Auto-Dialer
Allen Communication Learning Services, an employee training company, called plaintiff David Trungale’s cellphone nearly 800 times over the past two years to collect an unknown debt, yet Trungale “never had a business relationship” with Allen nor did he ever consent…
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to receiving the calls, alleged his Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint Thursday (docket 2:23-cv-01090) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Trungale of Brookfield, Wisconsin, got written confirmation from Allen that the calls would stop, and even received confirmation the calls were being made with an “auto-dialer,” as that term is used in the TCPA, said his complaint. But the calls nevertheless persisted, and “interfered” with Trungale’s personal and business life, and “occupied extensive amounts” of his time, it said. The TCPA “creates substantive rights for consumers,” and violations of the statute cause injury to consumers that are “concrete and particularized,” said his complaint. All the calls were in willful violation of the TCPA because Allen had knowledge it didn’t have permission to call Trungale’s cellphone, it said.