Judge orders Time Warner to pay Irving woman $229,500 over relentless robocalls
NEW YORK — It wasn’t a robocall, but a federal judge did leave a message for companies Tuesday when he awarded nearly $230,000 to an Irving woman, finding that Time Warner Cable crossed the line when it harassed her with 153 robocalls even after she complained about the wrong numbers.
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in Manhattan ordered the company to make the $229,500 payment to Araceli King, citing the New York-based company’s “particularly egregious” behavior as it violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991.
King sued last year, saying she had repeatedly asked the company to stop making the calls.
Susan Leepson, a Time Warner spokeswoman, said the company was reviewing its options for how to proceed.
Hellerstein said he tripled the penalty for each call because Time Warner’s actions were “particularly egregious” since it continued making the calls even after King complained in a seven-minute phone conversation in October 2013 with a company representative that the calls to her phone were apparently meant for a customer she did not know. The judge noted that 74 of the calls were made after Time Warner received a copy of King’s lawsuit in March 2014.
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