On October 18, the Northern District of Georgia issued an Order denying attempts by defendants IDT
Corporation and IDT Telecom, Inc. (collectively "IDT") to
strike a putative Telephone Consumer Protection Act class on
grounds established in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior
Court of California, 137 S. Ct. 1773 (2017). In Dennis v.
IDT, No. 1:18-cv-02302 (N.D. Ga. Oct. 18, 2018), the
plaintiff, on behalf of a national class, alleged that IDT
inundated consumers with unsolicited telemarketing calls, including
to numbers that were on the National Do Not Call Registry and
numbers for which IDT did not have consent to call. IDT moved to
dismiss the complaint or, in the alternative, strike class
allegations on Bristol-Myers grounds, i.e., the
premise that the federal court could not exercise personal
jurisdiction over claims brought on behalf of putative class
members not from Georgia.
