On April 1, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its highly anticipated decision in the Facebook Inc. v. Duguid matter. In a unanimous decision delivered by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court addressed a hotly debated issue of statutory construction regarding the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), and reversed the Court of Appeals … Continue Reading
By Paul Bond, Ashley Shively, Abraham Colman and Judith L. Harris on Posted in TCPA
On Friday, March 16, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued its long-awaited ruling in ACA International et al. v. FCC (see attached). The petition before the court challenged aspects of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) Omnibus Declaratory Ruling and Order issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in July … Continue Reading
A recent opinion from the Southern District of California suggests that now there is no bright-line rule regarding what qualifies as human intervention for purposes of determining whether an autodialer was used. In denying a motion for summary judgment filed by Yahoo, the court found that: “there are genuine issues of fact as to whether the … Continue Reading
