Class Action Alleges Regent University ‘Routinely Violates’ TCPA
Regent University “routinely violates” the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by using an artificial or prerecorded voice to place nonemergency telemarketing calls to cellphone numbers, without recipients’ prior express consent and often to wrong or reassigned numbers, alleged plaintiff Maxx Lyman’s…
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class action Wednesday (docket 2:23-cv-00480) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia in Norfolk. Before filing the lawsuit, Lyman’s counsel contacted Regent University, a private Christian school in Virginia Beach, about the calls at issue, said the complaint. The school didn’t deny placing calls to Lyman, and didn’t contend it had consent to contact him, it said. Regent “willfully and knowingly” violated the TCPA, it said. Due to those violations, Lyman and the members of the class “are entitled to damages in an amount to be proven at trial,” it said.