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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 47:227 Telephone Consumer Protection Act

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

GERALD ROYLANCE,

Plaintiff,

v.

ALG REAL ESTATE SERVICES INC., et 

al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 14-cv-02445-BLF 

ORDER ADOPTING REPORT AND 

RECOMMENDATION OF 

MAGISTRATE JUDGE; ENTERING 

DEFAULT JUDGMENT AND

MODIFIED INJUNCTION AGAINST 

DEFENDANTS

[Re: ECF 14, 17]

Before the Court is Magistrate Judge Paul Singh Grewal’s March 18, 2015 Report and 

Recommendation that Plaintiff’s Motion for Default Judgment be Granted-in-Part. Report and 

Recommendation (“R&R”), ECF 17. The time for objecting to the Report and Recommendation 

has elapsed, and no objections were filed. Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(b)(2). Having read and considered 

the Report and Recommendation, as well as the record on its face, the Court adopts the Report and 

Recommendation, as modified, for the reasons herein.

Plaintiff Gerald Roylance, proceeding pro se, alleges that defendants ALG Real Estate 

Services Inc., d/b/a AmeriFund Lending Group, Mark Augustus, and Donecia La Shaun Augustus 

violated provisions of the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), California’s 

Unfair Competition Law, California’s False Advertising Law and the California Public Utilities 

Code by making numerous unsolicited and anonymous telephone calls to his residential telephone 

number.1 Judge Grewal found that Plaintiff had adequately established that six prerecorded calls 

 

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In paragraph 9 of the Complaint, Plaintiff also identifies “1st Global Diversified, Inc.,” a 

suspended California corporation, as a defendant. No summons was issued for this defendant, and 

Plaintiff did not serve the defendant. Nor has Plaintiff requested any sort of relief against this 

defendant. The Court therefore DISMISSES defendant 1st Global Diversified, Inc. without 

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he received in 2010 violated 47 U.S.C. §§ 227(b) and (c) because they were unsolicited, 

prerecorded, failed to identify the caller, and blocked the identity of the caller in contravention of 

applicable regulations promulgated by the Federal Communications Commission. R&R 7-9. 

Plaintiff also established that two live phone calls he received violated § 227(c) because they 

likewise blocked the identity of the caller. Id. at 9. Accordingly, Judge Grewal recommends 

judgment against defendants ALG and Mark Augustus for statutory and treble damages of 

$21,000 for fourteen violations of the TCPA. Id. at 19-23. These findings are well founded in 

fact and law and the Court adopts Judge Grewal’s recommendation with respect to the TCPA 

claims in its entirety.

Judge Grewal found that Plaintiff had not adequately demonstrated that defendant Donecia 

August should be held liable for the violations, a conclusion that this Court also adopts. Id. 12-15.

Furthermore, Judge Grewal found that Plaintiff is entitled to injunctive relief under the 

TCPA and California Business and Professions Code § 17500.3 and recommends that defendant 

Mark Augustus be “permanently enjoined from violating the TCPA, the regulations promulgated 

under it and Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17500.3.” Id. at 25-26. The TCPA provides for injunctive 

relief as a remedy. 47 U.S.C. § 227(b)(3)(A); id. § 227(c)(5)(A). Injunctions authorized by 

statute do not require a showing of irreparable injury, only a showing that a violation of the statue 

is about to be committed, which Plaintiff has clearly made here. United States v. Laerdal Mfg. 

Co., 73 F.3d 852, 855 (9th Cir. 1995). The Court therefore finds that Judge Grewal’s

recommendation of injunctive relief is well founded in fact and law. The recommended injunction 

is, however, overbroad in enjoining defendant Mark Augustus from violating the law. As such, 

the Court shall modify the recommended injunction to enjoin defendant Mark Augustus from 

making unsolicited telephone calls to Plaintiff. 2

Based on the foregoing, the Court adopts Magistrate Judge Grewal’s Report and 

 

prejudice.

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The Court does not reach the question of Plaintiff’s standing to pursue injunctive relief under 

California Business & Professions Code § 17500.3 in a representative capacity because Plaintiff 

has made no showing that a broader injunction is warranted.

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Recommendation as modified. Plaintiff Gerald Roylance shall have default judgment against 

ALG and Mark Augustus jointly and severally in the amount of $21,000. Defendant Mark 

Augustus is moreover permanently enjoined and restrained from directly or indirectly engaging in 

any of the following acts: (1) making any call using any automatic telephone dialing system or 

artificial or prerecorded voice to Plaintiff Gerald Roylance’s residential telephone number of (650) 

948-1790 without Plaintiff’s prior express consent to such call; and (2) making any call to 

Plaintiff’s residential telephone number that blocks the transmission of caller identification 

information. The Court retains jurisdiction for the purpose of making any further orders necessary 

or proper for the consideration or modification of this Order, the enforcement thereof, and the 

punishment for any violations thereof. 

Plaintiff is HEREBY ORDERED to serve a copy of this Order, Judge Grewal’s Report and 

Recommendation, and the accompanying default judgment and permanent injunction orders on 

defendants ALG Real Estate Services Inc. and Mark Augustus.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 3, 2015

______________________________________

BETH LABSON FREEMAN

United States District Judge

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