ARLINGTON, Va.–NAFCU has asked a federal appeals court for leave to join an action challenging the Federal Communications Commission’s order on Telephone Consumer Protection Act prohibitions for financial institutions’ autodialed calls to account holders.
"The NAFCU board unanimously approved getting involved in the litigation against the FCC to help protect credit unions’ right to communicate with their members and, more importantly, to retain the unfettered ability to alert them when necessary to protect their accounts and information,” said Carrie Hunt, NAFCU’s senior vice president of government affairs and general counsel, in a statement.
According to NAFCU, it is seeking to become a party in a petition filed Sept. 2 by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit seeking a review of the FCC order or, in the alternative, to file an amicus brief. The FCC order responds to 19 petitions from various businesses and organizations that, among other things, sought clarification of FCC rule changes under TCPA that took effect in 2013.