In Chennette v. Porch.com, Inc., the plaintiffs were home improvement contractors that received unsolicited text messages from Porch.com and its subsidiary, GoSmith, offering potential customer leads.
Chennette v. Porch, allegedly made cold calls to home improvement business owners to sell leads. Porch argued that by listing their numbers in publicly available databases they consented to receive calls. Court found they listed the numbers to receive calls FROM CUSTOMERS.