In an ironic twist, Intake Desk LLC, a company that recruits plaintiffs for personal injury lawsuits and uses the tagline “File More Mass Tort Cases,” now finds itself on the other side of the courtroom—as a defendant in a TCPA class action.

The Complaint in Emily Teman v. Intake Desk LLC (Mar. 19, 2025, D. Mass.) alleges that Intake Desk violated the TCPA by making telemarketing calls to Plaintiff Teman and other putative class members while their numbers were listed on the National Do Not Call Registry and without their written consent, as well as by calling individuals who had previously requested not to receive such calls.

Plaintiff Teman claims she received more than a dozen calls from Intake Desk over several months in 2023, allegedly attempting to sign her up for personal injury lawsuits related to talcum powder. However, Teman asserts that she never consented to these calls, and that her number has been on the National Do Not Call Registry since 2003.

Interestingly, Teman filed another TCPA class action with similar allegations against Select Justice, LLC, a self-proclaimed advocacy group “committed to helping injured individuals seek justice and compensation.” In Emily Teman v. Select Justice, LLC (Mar. 20, 2025, D. Mass.), Teman alleges that she received more than a dozen calls from Select Justice over several months in 2023, including multiple harassing voicemails from different representatives. According to the Complaint, the voicemails implied that Teman had contacted Select Justice to join class action suits related to talcum powder and rideshare assault. Teman asserts that she had never been a customer of Select Justice and never consented to receive calls from them. The Complaint further alleges that the calls prompted Teman to file a Consumer Complaint with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office against Select Justice on January 26, 2024.

While the Complaint against Intake Desk states that Teman “never made an inquiry into” its services, the Complaint against Select Justice alleges that she “was not interested in Select Justice’s services.” Perhaps this is just a trivial semantic difference – but in TCPAWorld, every word carries weight.