The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) provides a (deceptively?) simple definition of an Automatic Telephone Dialing System (ATDS):
The term “automatic telephone dialing system” means equipment which has the capacit...more
The dust was finally settling. District and Circuit courts around the country were rejecting the Ninth Circuit’s overly broad interpretation of the definition of an automatic telephone dialing system (“ATDS”) under the...more
Following the Eleventh Circuit’s opinion a few weeks ago, the Seventh Circuit just held that dialing equipment must be capable of storing or producing telephone numbers using a random or sequential number generator in order...more
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act case law interpreting the definition of an “automatic telephone dialing system” (“ATDS”) is changing under plaintiffs’ feet and coalescing against the definition set forth in Marks v....more
On January 28, 2020, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals dealt a body-blow to serial TCPA scammers and everyone else who has disingenuously argued over the past decade that any type of “automated” dialing equipment is...more