Legal Opinion
Sawyer v. Atlas Heating & Sheet Metal Works, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 26, 2011No. 10-3672PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.
On December 9, 2005, Atlas Heating and Sheet Metal Works faxed unsolicited advertisements to Isaac Sawyer and many other persons, violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, 47 U.S.C. § 227. (So the complaint says, and we must accept its allegations at this stage of the litigation.) The statute of limitations is four years. 28 U.S.C. § 1658. On May 18, 2009, with more than six months to go, Park Bank, one of the fax’s recipients, sued Atlas Heating in a state court of Wisconsin. It proposed to represent a class of all recipients. See Wis. Stat. § 803.08. But on…
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