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Plaintiff Alleges Harley-Davidson Phoned Him 120 Times After Being Told to Stop

Harley-Davidson Credit Corp. committed Telephone Consumer Protection Act wrongdoing that was “knowing and intentional,” and it didn’t maintain procedures “reasonably adapted to avoid any such violation,” alleged plaintiff Steven Lowe’s complaint Tuesday (docket 2:23-cv-08521) in U.S. District Court for Central…

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California in Los Angeles. Lowe “expressly told” the company June 17 to stop calling his cellphone, said his complaint. But the calls didn’t stop, “and sometimes occurred three times in one day, and sometimes early in the morning,” it said. The Long Beach County, California, resident estimates the company called his cellphone more than 120 times since the calls began in November, it said. Nearly 10 pages of Lowe’s 22-page complaint are devoted to a line-by-line breakdown of the numerous calls he received. Lowe alleges the calls were made to a cellphone number that was listed on the national do not call registry since June 2019. Through Harley-Davidson’s conduct, Lowe “suffered an invasion of a legally protected interest in privacy, which is specifically addressed and protected by the TCPA,” said his complaint.