Class Action Alleges Shoe Carnival ‘Routinely’ Sends Texts to Numbers on DNC Registry
Retailer Shoe Carnival “routinely violates” the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by delivering telemarketing text messages to residential or cellphone numbers listed on the national do not call registry, and does so without the recipients’ prior express invitation or permission, alleged…
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plaintiff Timothy Moore’s class action Tuesday (docket 3:23-cv-00215) in U.S. District Court for Southern Indiana in Evansville. The Greenwood, Mississippi, resident listed his cellphone number on the DNC registry in August 2018, yet he received text messages from a 727375 short code phone number advertising Shoe Carnival’s product offerings starting in August 2023 and continuing through to the present, alleged his complaint. Moore isn’t a current or former Shoe Carnival customer, and doesn’t believe he has ever visited a Shoe Carnival store or website, it said. He estimates he received at least five Shoe Carnival telemarketing text messages this year, it said.