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Judge Denies as Moot Twilio’s Motion to Dismiss vs. Pa. GOP Committee

U.S. District Judge Kelley Hodge for Eastern Pennsylvania in Philadelphia denied as moot Twilio’s Aug. 28 motion to dismiss the Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint of third-party plaintiff, the Republican Committee of Chester County (RCCC), Pennsylvania, said the judge’s signed…

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order Thursday (docket 2:22-cv-05185). The motion was rendered moot after the RCCC filed an amended complaint Sept. 11, said the judge. Buzz360 and Twilio, not the RCCC, which hired the vendors, are “directly liable” to plaintiff Mark Fidanza “if his averments prove to be true” that his cellphone was inundated with RCCC text messages in the run-up to the 2022 midterm elections, said the RCCC’s amended complaint (see 2309120015).