Class Action Alleges Circle K Keeps Sending Texts After Being Told to Stop
Circle K Stores repeatedly sent telemarketing text messages to Emisiah Hughes and her putative class members even after they “expressly requested” that the convenience store chain stop sending them, alleged Hughes’ Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action Friday (docket 1:24-cv-01071)…
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in U.S. District Court for Central Illinois in Peoria. Despite confirming it would no longer send the Peoria resident its telemarketing text messages after she replied “stop” to one of those messages, Circle K continued sending her multiple messages, alleged her complaint. The retailer’s conduct “violated the privacy rights of Hughes and the putative class members, as they were subjected to annoying and harassing text messages,” it said. Circle K’s texts, promoting everything from new lottery games to free offers on Mountain Dew soft drinks, “intruded upon the rights of Hughes and the putative class members to be free from invasion of their interest in seclusion,” it said. Circle K has texted and continues to text people who have requested that the retailer place them on its internal do not call list, said the complaint: “It is reasonable to expect that Circle K will continue to send such text messages absent this lawsuit.”