United States Supreme Court
Mims v. Arrow Financial Services, LLC, 10-1195
In a damages action brought in federal district court, alleging that the respondent, seeking to collect a debt, violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA) by repeatedly using an automatic telephone dialing system or prerecorded or artificial voice to call the plaintiff’s cellular phone without his consent, the dismissal of the complaint for want of subject-matter jurisdiction is reversed, as the claim arose under federal law, and the TCPA's permissive grant of jurisdiction to state courts does not deprive the US district courts of federal-question jurisdiction under 28 USC section 1331.
Appellate Information
- Decided 01/18/2012
- Published 01/18/2012
Judges
- Ginsburg
Court
- United States Supreme Court