October 19, 2020
A man suing Facebook over allegedly unsolicited text messages is pushing the U.S. Supreme Court to declare that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act broadly encompasses any device that can automatically dial numbers, arguing that adopting a narrower reading would "unleash the torrent of robocalls" that the law is intended to stop.
September 24, 2020
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's absence on the U.S. Supreme Court is likely to swing a heated dispute over what qualifies as an autodialer under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act in businesses' favor, especially if she is succeeded by a front-runner from the Seventh Circuit who authored a key opinion on the issue.
September 10, 2020
The Washington Legal Foundation and a marketing trade association are the latest to back Facebook's bid to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to narrowly define what qualifies as an autodialer under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, arguing that such a reading is clearly what Congress intended and that it's up to federal lawmakers to broaden the statute's reach.
September 04, 2020
The federal government on Friday joined Facebook's effort to kill the Ninth Circuit's interpretation of phone autodialers, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject the lower court's broad view of the type of devices subject to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's robocall restrictions.
July 24, 2020
Progressive groups on Friday urged Justice Brett Kavanaugh's recusal from the U.S. Supreme Court review of Facebook's bid to stop a class action accusing the social media giant of violating robocall restrictions, saying the justice's close friendship with a top company executive casts doubt on his impartiality.
July 24, 2020
From two cases that could define the scope of a hotly debated computer crimes law to a U.S. Supreme Court dispute set to rattle the landscape of federal robocall and text message litigation, the second half of 2020 should be busy in the world of cybersecurity and privacy law. Here are five cases worth watching.
July 09, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday jumped into the raging debate over what qualifies as an autodialer under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, a move that's widely expected to determine whether robocall and text message litigation that exposes companies to hefty statutory penalties dries up or continues to boom.
July 08, 2020
A lawsuit against Facebook over text messages provides an opening for the U.S. Supreme Court to mend a growing circuit split over how federal law defines illegal robocalls, a man suing the company told the justices Wednesday.
July 07, 2020
A day after the U.S. Supreme Court resolved a debate over the constitutionality of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's autodialer provision, Facebook on Tuesday urged the justices to act on its long-pending request to settle the score over what types of dialing equipment trigger liability under the decades-old statute.
January 03, 2020
A man leading a putative class action accusing Facebook of blasting consumers with unwanted security notification texts is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to refrain from taking up the dispute, arguing that the case provides an "unsuitable vehicle" for addressing questions over the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's scope and constitutionality.