Panel Consolidates Petitions for Review of TCPA Order

The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation consolidated multicircuit petitions for review of the FCC declaratory ruling and order on the Telephone Consumer Protection Act in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a Friday panel order said. The panel randomly chose the D.C. Circuit as the circuit of record, acting on a notice of petitions for review filed there and in the 7th Circuit, the order said.