# Legal Herald: Consumer Protection

> When you can sue over robocalls and spam texts under the TCPA, what the Do Not Call rules require, how $500 statutory damages work, and FDCPA basics.

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Last Updated: 2026-11-06

## Guide
- [Robocall and Spam Text Lawsuits: Your Rights Under the TCPA](https://consumer-protection.legalherald.com/) (reviewed by Laurence Banville, Esq.)

## FAQ

### Can I sue a company for robocalls?
Often, yes. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act lets individuals sue over prerecorded or artificial-voice calls, certain autodialed calls and texts made without the required consent, and repeated telemarketing calls to numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry. You need to identify who made the calls or on whose behalf they were made.

### How much can I get for a TCPA violation?
The statute sets damages of $500 per violation, or your actual losses if higher. A court can increase that to as much as $1,500 per violation when the caller acted willfully or knowingly. Most individual and class cases settle, and what a case is worth depends on the number of calls, the evidence and the defendant.

### Do spam text messages count under the TCPA?
In many situations, yes. The Supreme Court has treated a text message to a cell phone as a call under the TCPA's autodialer provision, and the FCC applies its Do Not Call rules to marketing texts. Some courts have recently questioned whether texts count under the Do Not Call damages provision, so this area is changing.

### How many calls do I need before I can sue under the Do Not Call rules?
For a Do Not Call claim, the TCPA requires more than one telephone solicitation within a 12-month period by or on behalf of the same entity to a number on the registry. Claims over prerecorded or autodialed calls without consent do not have that two-call minimum.

### How long do I have to file a TCPA claim?
The TCPA does not state its own deadline, and courts generally apply the four-year federal catch-all statute of limitations to private TCPA claims. FDCPA claims against debt collectors have a much shorter one-year deadline.

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