Professional Painting Firm Hounding Consumers With Text Messages: Class Action
Precision Painting Plus sent or caused to be sent multiple telemarketing text messages to Lachae Vickers’ cellphone between Feb. 11 and April 18 to promote its services, alleged Vickers’ Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action Wednesday (docket 1:24-cv-03862) in U.S.…
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District Court for Eastern New York. The information contained in the text messages advertised the painting company’s various promotions and discounts, said the complaint. At no point did Vickers provide Precision with her express written consent to be contacted, nor did she have an existing business relationship with the company, it said. The text messages also were sent to a cellphone number that the Queens, New York, resident personally listed on the national do not call registry in August 2022, it said. The defendant’s unsolicited text messages caused Vickers actual harm, “including invasion of her privacy, aggravation, annoyance, intrusion on seclusion, trespass, and conversion,” said the complaint. The text messages also inconvenienced the plaintiff "and caused disruption to her daily life," it said. She seeks actual and statutory damages for herself and each member of the class, plus an injunction requiring Precision “to cease all unsolicited text messaging activity,” it said.