It's been a slow week so I’m glad to have a quick and interesting case to report on for you.

As most of you know, 47 CFR Section 64.1200(d)(3) affords callers a “reasonable” time to execute on a DNC request. The statute provides that “reasonable” may not “exceed thirty days from the date of such request.”

Most folks would “reasonably” read this to mean the caller has 30 days to stop calling.

Well in Delgado v. eMortgage Funding, LLC Civil Action No. 21-CV-11401 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 196785 (E.D. Mich.  October 13, 2021) the Court disagreed. In its view, the 30-day limit was the outside limit of reasonableness, but failing to stop calls in less than 30 days might also be “unreasonable” depending on the facts and circumstances.

In Delgado the Plaintiff allegedly received 4 calls within 14 days after asking for calls to cease. While the court reserved the issue of whether that was “unreasonable” it refused to determine at the pleadings stage that the eMortgage per se acted “reasonably.”

So keep this in mind. Even though the regs seem to give you 30 days you may actually have less time. Yet another trap for the unwary in the TCPAWorld.