KRAKAUER v. DISH NETWORK, L.L.C.

No. 18-1518.

925 F.3d 643 (2019)

Thomas H. KRAKAUER, on behalf of a class of persons, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DISH NETWORK, L.L.C., Defendant-Appellant. DRI-The Voice of the Defense Bar; Product Liability Advisory Council, Incorporated, Amici Supporting Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: May 30, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: E. Joshua Rosenkranz , ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE, LLP, New York, New York, for Appellant. John William Barrett , BAILEY & GLASSER LLP, Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Peter A. Bicks , Elyse D. Echtman , John L. Ewald , Christopher J. Cariello , New York, New York, Eric A. Shumsky , Kelsi Brown Corkran , Jeremy R. Peterman , Washington, D.C., Paul David Meyer , ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE LLP, San Francisco, California, for Appellant. Brian A. Glasser , BAILEY & GLASSER LLP, Charleston, West Virginia; Deepak Gupta , Jonathan E. Taylor , GUPTA WESSLER PLLC, Washington, D.C., for Appellee. Richard D. Kelley , BEAN KINNEY & KORMAN, Arlington, Virginia; Deirdre A. Fox , Stephanie Scharf , SCHARF BANKS MARMOR LLC, Chicago, Illinois, for Amicus Product Liability Advisory Council. David M. Axelrad , Felix Shafir , HORVITZ & LEVY LLP, Burbank, California; John F. Kuppens , President, DRI-THE VOICE OF THE DEFENSE BAR, Chicago, Illinois, for Amicus DRI-The Voice of the Defense Bar.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge Wilkinson wrote the opinion, in which Judge King and Judge Berger joined.


Congress enacted the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) to prevent abusive telephone marketing practices. As part of this effort, the TCPA prohibits calls to numbers on the national Do-Not-Call registry. Dr. Thomas Krakauer brought suit against Dish Network, alleging that its sales representative, Satellite Systems...

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