TCPA Defendant Wins With “Human Intervention” Defense in California

A recent decision out of the Northern District of California creates new hope for TCPA defendants. In Luna v. Shac, LLC, Case No. 5:14-cv-00607-HRL, 2015 WL 4941781 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 19, 2015), defendant Shac, LLC won summary judgment by arguing that the web-based application the company used to send promotional text messages could not operate without human intervention, a “defining characteristic” of an autodialer under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), 47 U.S.C. § 227(b)(1).

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