Telecommunications Firm Must Provide Some Call Data In TCPA Class Action

Mealey's (January 11, 2019, 1:38 PM EST) -- ST. LOUIS — Although a Missouri federal judge found some of the discovery requests of a plaintiff in a putative class action under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) to be overly broad, he held on Jan. 9 that certain anonymized outbound call data was relevant to whether the defendant telecommunications company placed automated calls without consent, granting in part a motion to compel discovery responses (Greg Leeb v. Charter Communications Inc., No. 4:17-cv-02780, E.D. Mo., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 4590)....