Self-Proclaimed ‘TCPA Robin Hood’ Settles His Claims vs. Diamond Resorts
Plaintiff Paul Sapan and defendant Diamond Resorts reached a “private settlement of the material issues” in their Telephone Consumer Protection Act dispute, said Sapan’s notice of settlement Thursday (docket 8:23-cv-00147) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Santa Ana.…
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The parties plan to file a joint motion to dismiss the entire case with prejudice by Jan. 15, because the terms of the settlement “require an undertaking in the first week of January,” said the notice. Sapan alleged in his Jan. 23 class action that Diamond engages in a scheme to sell timeshares via “cold calls” to residential phone numbers listed on the national do not call registry, in violation of the TCPA (see 2301240064). Relations between the parties appeared recently to grow exceptionally strained when, in an Aug. 30 joint stipulation, Diamond accused Sapan of being one of the “most prolific TCPA litigants in the country,” while Sapan depicted himself as a “TCPA Robin Hood” who sues "junk callers" like Diamond for their illegal calls, “then gives his portion of the recovery to charity” (see 2308310039).