Plaintiff Alleges Johnson & Wales Phoned Him 5 Times Without His Consent

Johnson & Wales University, or “someone acting on its behalf and at its direction,” makes prerecorded telemarketing calls to promote its degree programs, and does so without prior express written consent, alleged plaintiff Lawrence Wright’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action Nov. 22 (docket 3:23-cv-01941) in U.S. District Court for Middle Pennsylvania in Scranton. Wright listed his residential cellphone number May 18 on the national do not call registry, yet he started receiving Johnson & Wales telemarketing solicitations June 27, said his complaint. He estimates receiving at least five such solicitations through July 11, it said. Wright knew the calls were prerecorded because “they were all identical,” it said. Wright never gave the school consent to call him, “written or otherwise,” it said. He has suffered “concrete harm” due to the university’s “unwanted and unsolicited” telemarketing calls, including lost time tending to the calls and voicemail messages, plus invasion of privacy and the “nuisance” nature of the calls, it said: “These forms of actual injury are sufficient for Article III standing purposes."