House Speaker’s Campaign Committee Seeks Dismissal of TCPA Complaint
The principal campaign committee for House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., seeks the dismissal of William Hunsaker’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint, said its motion Tuesday (docket 1:23-cv-03322) in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver. Hunsaker alleges that the committee,…
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Mike Johnson for Louisiana, inundated his cellphone with at least five text-message solicitations for campaign donations without his prior consent (see 2312190001). But the Denver court “lacks either general or specific personal jurisdiction” over the committee, said the motion to dismiss. More specifically, the court has no general jurisdiction over the committee because the committee’s affiliations with Colorado aren’t “extensive or unique enough to render the committee at home in Colorado," it said. The court also has no specific jurisdiction over the committee because Hunsaker’s suit didn’t arise from the committee’s conduct in Colorado, it said. Any attempt to assert specific personal jurisdiction over the committee in Colorado “would offend traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice,” it said. Hunsaker lives in Colorado.