Court Opinion

ID: 9386848
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-04-13 20:00:38.911243+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:18:09.052409
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NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           FILED
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                        APR 13 2023
                                                                      MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
                           FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

LAWRENCE PASCAL, individually and on            No.    22-15033
behalf of all others similarly situated,
                                                D.C. No. 3:19-cv-02559-JCS
                Plaintiff-Appellant,

 v.                                             MEMORANDUM*

CONCENTRA, INC., a Delaware
corporation,

                Defendant-Appellee,

and

JASON ARMS, DBA I Buy 901 Homes,

                Defendant.

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                      for the Northern District of California
                   Joseph C. Spero, Magistrate Judge, Presiding

                             Submitted April 11, 2023**
                              San Francisco, California

Before: PAEZ, CLIFTON, and H.A. THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

      *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
      **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
      Lawrence Pascal appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment to

Concentra, Inc. in a putative class action lawsuit brought under the Telephone

Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291.

We review the district court’s grant of summary judgment de novo. Duarte v. City

of Stockton, 60 F.4th 566, 570 (9th Cir. 2023). We affirm.

      Pascal’s argument that Concentra violated the TCPA when it messaged him

using Textedly, an online text-messaging service, is foreclosed by our decision in

Borden v. eFinancial, LLC, 53 F.4th 1230 (9th Cir. 2022). In Borden, we held that

a system constitutes an autodialer regulated by the TCPA only if it “generate[s]

random or sequential telephone numbers.” Id. at 1231; see also Brickman v. United

States, 56 F.4th 688, 690 (9th Cir. 2022). Because Textedly did not store or

produce randomly or sequentially generated telephone numbers, Concentra’s text

message was not sent to Pascal via use of an autodialer in violation of the TCPA.

      AFFIRMED.

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