Telemarketing saga ends with a demand for one-third of the
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Scofflaw, I Say!
Abante Rooter and Plumbing Inc. v. Alarm.com Inc. went
right down to the wire.
The
original suit, filed in December 2015, accused Alarm.com of
Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) violations, including
recorded calls and calls made from autodialers. Some of the calls
were made to consumers on the National Do Not Call Registry.
Wrapped up in the suit was one of Alarm.com's "service
providers," Alliance Security. You may remember Alliance in
its earlier incarnation as VMS.
No matter the name, the company has had numerous run-ins with
TCPA charges, including plenty of attention from the Federal Trade
Commission (FTC) (see our earlier story
here). Although Alarm.com was the only named defendant,
Alliance was accused of making the offending calls on its behalf to
two separate classes of phone owners. The suit contains a
comprehensive list of Alliance's legal run-ins under
