On August 7, a class of consumer plaintiffs filed a motion for preliminary approval of a settlement agreement with a weight loss company. The complaint, filed in May, alleged that the company sent text messages through the use of an automatic telephone dialing system without permission and in violation of the TCPA. The proposed national class consists of 628,610 individuals who received a text message from the company without their express written consent since May 7, 2014. The proposed settlement would require the company to pay $3 million.
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