Tax Relief Firm’s Conduct ‘Exactly’ What TCPA Was ‘Designed to Prevent’: Class Action
Millennia Tax Relief negligently, knowingly and willfully transmitted unsolicited, autodialed calls using an artificial or prerecorded voice to the cellphones of plaintiff Dawn Costa and her putative class members without consent, in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, alleged…
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Costa’s class action Thursday (docket 2:23-cv-09232) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles. Millennia’s unlawful conduct “is exactly the type of telephonic contact the TCPA was designed to prevent,” said Costa’s complaint. The company didn’t “maintain procedures reasonably adapted to avoid any such specific violation,” it said. Costa was “confused, frustrated and annoyed” as to why Millennia was calling her when she had never given the company her contact information, it said. She alleges she suffered “an invasion of a legally protected interest in privacy, which is specifically addressed and protected by the TCPA,” said her complaint. Millennia’s calls and voicemails forced Costa and her “similarly situated” class members “to live without significant memory space” on their cellphones by “occupying” their devices with multiple unwanted messages, “causing nuisance and lost time,” it said.