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Appeals court: Legal maneuver to use different court rule to intercept TCPA class action still won't fly

By Jonathan Bilyk | Thursday, Jun 22, 2017 @ 11:31pm

A federal appeals court has shot down a gambit by a company attempting to swat down a junk fax class action lawsuit by depositing with the court a payment it believed to satisfy the claims of the lawsuit’s lead plaintiff, as judges said they did not believe the attempt to use a seeming loophole in a recent landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling is different enough from the very act the nation’s high court wouldn’t fly under the law.