Pest Control

A business avoided liability under the TCPA (the federal anti-robocall statute, not the Texas anti-SLAPP law) for unwanted calls when the plaintiff had given consent to the communications at issue:

Bradford … gave prior express consent. He provided his cell-phone number when he entered into the service-plan agreement with Sovereign Pest. Bradford has expressly stated that he gave Sovereign Pest his phone number so that the company could get in touch with him. He confirmed that Sovereign Pest could call him on his  cell phone during later conversations with the company. … We also note that the service-plan agreement provided that Sovereign Pest and Bradford could “extend the agreement annually” for another year if both parties consented. The inspections to which Sovereign Pest’s renewal-inspection calls led facilitated Sovereign Pest’s decision to renew the agreement. Despite Bradford’s protestations about the renewal-inspection calls now, he chose to renew the service-plan agreement four times. 

No. 24-20379 (Feb. 25, 2026).