Austin Restaurant Texted Numbers on National DNC Registry, Alleges Class Action
Monica Abboud listed her cellphone number on the national do not call registry in February 2020, yet an Austin restaurant inundated her with multiple unsolicited text messages promoting its business, alleged her Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action Friday (docket…
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1:24-cv-00482) in U.S. District Court for Western Texas in Austin. Through Hoboken Pie’s unlawful conduct, Abboud “suffered an invasion of a legally protected interest in privacy, which is specifically addressed and protected by the TCPA,” said her complaint. Before filing suit, the Texas resident’s counsel sent the defendant a letter requesting any information regarding the authority it alleged for sending the unsolicited text messages, it said. The restaurant responded with no DNC list or registry verification information, the class action. Hoboken Pie also offered Abboud no “informative information” about the unsolicited text messages, it said.