Mo. Judge Sets March 2025 Jury Trial on TCPA Claims Brought vs. Vintage Stock

U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark for Eastern Missouri in St. Louis scheduled a jury trial to begin March 10 on the remaining Telephone Consumer Protection Act claims brought by Sheila and Dennis Thompson against home entertainment retailer Vintage Stock, said his signed case management order Thursday (docket 4:23-cv-00042). Oct. 15 is the deadline for completing all discovery, said the order. Clark’s Feb. 8 memorandum and order granted Vintage Stock’s motion to dismiss Count II of the Thompsons’ first amended complaint in which they alleged that the retailer failed to institute procedures for maintaining a list of persons who request not to be called (see 2402090027). Clark found that the Thompsons didn’t sufficiently plead factual allegations to demonstrate that the injury they incurred by receiving unwanted text messages is “fairly traceable” to Vintage Stock’s allegedly unlawful conduct of failing to meet the requirements of the TCPA’s Section 64.1200(d). He also found that the Thompsons’ complaint contained no facts connecting Vintage Stock’s alleged failures with their receiving of text messages.