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111460P.pdf 05/21/2013 Michael Nack v. Douglas Walburg
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 11-1460
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Wollman and Colloton, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991. District court
erred in granting defendant summary judgment on plaintiff's claim that
his receipt of one fax advertisement from defendant which did not
contain the opt-out language mandated by 47 C.F.R. Sec.
64.1200(a)(3)(iv) violated the Telephone Protection Act as amended by
the Junk Fax Prevention Act of 2005; the regulation, as written, requires
the opt-out language even if the sender received prior express
authorization to send the fax; this plain-language interpretation of the
regulation is consistent with the FCC's proffered interpretation of the
regulation; at this stage of the matter, the court could not entertain
arguments that the unambiguous regulation is contrary to unambiguous
statutory language or that the application of the regulation was arbitrary
or capricious as such challenges would be precluded by the Hobbs Act.