More than two years after the Supreme Court released its ruling in Facebook v. Duguid, confirming the meaning of automatic telephone dialing systems (ATDS) under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), a plaintiff has...more
7/20/2023
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On April 13, the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion affirming a district court’s summary judgment order on the grounds that under Borden v. eFinancial, LLC, discussed here, to qualify as an automatic telephone dialing system...more
In a succinct, emphatic opinion issued on January 19, the Ninth Circuit quietly rejected one of the last remaining arguments made by plaintiffs attempting to neutralize the Supreme Court’s decisive Facebook opinion...more
The U.S. Supreme Court’s long-awaited decision in Facebook v. Duguid answered in the affirmative a question that had divided courts for years: Did the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s definition of automatic telephone...more
In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Duguid v. Facebook, finding once and for all that an automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS) as defined by the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) requires a...more
The Acting Solicitor General submitted an amicus brief in Facebook v. Duguid on September 4, urging the Supreme Court to find that telephony must randomly or sequentially generate telephone numbers, then dial those numbers in...more
9/11/2020
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On July 9th, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Duguid v. Facebook to decide, once and for all, whether an automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS), as the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) defines the phrase,...more
7/11/2020
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