Class Action Seeks to Stop Timeshare Industry ‘Pioneer’ From Violating TCPA
Plaintiff Robert Doyle brought a class action Tuesday to stop Resorts Condominium International (RCI) from violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and invading consumers’ privacy by making unsolicited telemarketing calls using a prerecorded or artificial voice without their consent, said…
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Doyle’s complaint (docket 2:23-cv-23237) in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark. RCI is “a self-professed pioneer in the timeshare industry whose core business is timeshare exchanges,” said the complaint. But in its “overzealous attempt to market its services,” RCI knowingly and willfully made, and continues to make, unsolicited telemarketing phone calls, it said. Doyle, a Morris County, New Jersey, resident, alleges receiving multiple prerecorded telemarketing calls from RCI despite never having had a business relationship with the company, said the complaint. Doyle didn’t give RCI “prior express invitation or consent in writing” for the company to call his personal cellphone for marketing or solicitation purposes, it said. Doyle “properly alleges injuries in fact,” which are “fairly traceable” to RCI’s unlawful acts, “and are likely to be redressed by a favorable judicial decision,” it said. “Receiving the unwanted phone calls resembles the kind of harm associated with intrusion upon seclusion,” it said.