Legal Opinion
Arnold Chapman v. First Index, Incorporated
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 6, 2015No. 14-2773, 14-2775PublishedCited by 140 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
This is another of the surprisingly many junk-fax suits under 47 U.S.C. § 227, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which together with the FCC’s implementing regulations establishes some simple rules that many fax senders ignore. This suit involves two of those requirements: first, that commercial faxes be sent only to those who have agreed to receive them; second, that commercial faxes include instructions about how to opt out of receiving more.
When this suit began in 2009, its sole plaintiff, Arnold Chapman, proposed to represent a class of persons who received…
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