California Federal Judge Won’t Extend Mass Action Ruling To Class Action

Mealey's (May 16, 2019, 8:37 AM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge on May 3 declined a bank’s request to dismiss or strike a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class complaint for lack of personal jurisdiction by extending a Supreme Court ruling on a mass action to class actions, writing that doing so “would radically alter the existing universe of class action law” (Stephanie Sotomayor, et al. v. Bank of America, N.A., No. 19-541, C.D. Calif., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 77283)....