Robocall Lawyer in Wyoming: $500 to $1,500 Per Illegal Call

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act, 47 U.S.C. § 227, is a federal law, so it protects a phone in Cheyenne the same way it protects one in Casper, Gillette or Laramie. It bars autodialed and prerecorded calls and texts to cell phones without consent and bars telemarketing calls to numbers on the national Do Not Call Registry. Each illegal call or text carries $500 in statutory damages, and up to $1,500 when the violation was willful or knowing. Those figures stack per call, and because the whole state shares the 307 area code, a robocaller working a Wyoming list often hits the same phone again and again.

Wyoming does not run a separate state no-call list. Its statute instead adopts the national list: under Wyo. Stat. § 40-12-302, a telephone solicitor may not willfully make an unsolicited sales call to a residential, mobile or paging number more than 60 days after that number appears on the national do-not-call list. The same section bars unsolicited sales calls before 8 a.m. or after 8 p.m. at the consumer’s location, an hour earlier than the federal cutoff, forbids blocking or circumventing caller ID, and requires the caller to state who they are and why they are calling at the start. Section 40-12-303 bars automated sales calls that deliver a recorded message unless the consumer asked for the call, the number was screened against the do-not-call list, or there is an established business relationship. Section 40-12-304 lets the Attorney General investigate complaints and seek civil penalties of up to $500 for a first willful violation, $2,500 for a second and $5,000 for each one after that, and it awards attorney’s fees to the prevailing party in civil litigation over a violation. Section 40-12-305 requires solicitors to file a notice with the Attorney General and consent to service through the Secretary of State. The Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Unit in Cheyenne handles complaints.

Federal TCPA suits from anywhere in Wyoming are filed in the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming, which sits in Cheyenne and Casper. Cases are handled nationwide under the federal TCPA. Local counsel is associated where Wyoming rules require it. Max Morgan, Esq. is licensed in Pennsylvania and reviews call records at no charge; there is no attorney’s fee unless you recover. The federal TCPA limitations period is generally four years, but shorter deadlines can apply to state claims, so talk to us before assuming there is time.