No Sense of Size of Potential Class in TCPA Suit vs. Parler, Say Lawyers

Lawyers for neither the plaintiffs nor the defendants in the class action alleging that the right-leaning social media platform Parler violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and the Florida Telephone Solicitation Act (see 2210240040) have a sense about how big the potential class will be, they told U.S. District Judge Roy Altman for Southern Florida in Miami in a Zoom status conference Monday. “We have just gotten our hands on this” case, and “have very recently become involved,” Parler attorney Jim Humphrey of Graves Garrett told the judge. “We have not engaged in an assessment of the size of this class yet,” said Humphrey. “We haven’t been able to do that with our client, although that is the first thing on our to-do list. I know we are working on that now.” If nobody knows how big the class is, “nobody knows how much to pay,” Altman told plaintiffs’ attorney Manuel Hiraldo. Altman told lawyers for both sides: “I have to tell you, by the way, I could have been so rich if I was a TCPA plaintiff. I get like a thousand of these a day.” Parler has a Nov. 17 extended deadline to respond to the complaint (docket 0:22-cv-61805).