U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies TCPA's Definition of "Autodialer"
By EsqSocial Corporation 09/04/21
The ruling should limit the FCC's ability to rewrite the statute through administrative action. In Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid, the Supreme Court resolved the interpretive question at the heart of the swarm of litigation under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA")—whether equipment that dials from a list of numbers qualifies as an "automatic telephone dialing system" subject to the TCPA's statutory penalties. The Court held that it does not. Instead, to qualify as an autodialer,...
By: Jones Day