FTC’s Opposition Due Aug. 23 on 3 Motions to Dismiss Robocall Complaint

U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant for Southern California in San Diego granted the parties’ joint request for a unified briefing schedule on the three motions from defendants Stratics Networks, Atlas Investment Ventures and Ace Business Solutions to dismiss the FTC’s Feb. 16 robocall complaint (see 2302170032), said her signed order Tuesday (docket 3:23-cv-00313). The FTC’s deadline is Aug. 23 for filing a single combined brief in opposition to the three motions that will be limited to 75 pages, said the order. The defendants will have until Sept. 27 to file individual replies, it said. DOJ sued on the FTC’s behalf to stop a network of companies and individuals allegedly responsible for delivering “tens of millions” of unwanted VoIP and ringless voicemail phony debt service robocalls to consumers nationwide.