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Privacy Tip #397 – TikTok and ByteDance File Suit Against the United States

As threatened, TikTok, Inc. and ByteDance, Ltd., the owner of the TikTok app, filed suit against the United States on May 7, 2024, alleging that the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Post-Barr, Sixth Circuit Says Debt Collectors Can Be Liable

Continuing the fallout from the now over-one-year-old decision in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit ruled that the U.S. Constitution displaced the...more

King & Spalding

Supreme Court Strikes Down TCPA Exception—While Keeping the Remainder of the Act Intact—and Will Soon Address “Autodialer”...

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On July 6, the Supreme Court issued a long-awaited decision in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants addressing whether a provision of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”)—which generally prohibits...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

TCPA’s 2015 Government-Debt Collection Exception Struck Down- Now What?

The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants held the government-debt exception of the TCPA unconstitutional under the First Amendment’s Free Speech Clause. This means that...more

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Supreme Court TCPA News: Government Debt Collectors Beware and Autodialers Under Review

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The Supreme Court is showing interest in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), which is designed to control certain unwanted calls, and which over the last decade has been a favored tool of the plaintiffs’ bar to...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

The Supreme Court Is Positioning to Take On TCPA

On July 6, 2020, the United States Supreme Court issued its ruling in Barr v. American Ass’n of Political Consultants, a case in which the plaintiffs challenged a government-debt collection exception to the Telephone Consumer...more

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TCPA Class Actions - Supreme Court Severs Government Debt Collection Exception

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Takeaway: In Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc, No. 19-631, 2020 WL 3633780 (U.S. July 6, 2020), the Supreme Court invalidated the exception for calls made for the purpose of collecting government...more

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Florida Real Property & Business Litigation Report, Volume 13, Issue 28

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Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc., Case No. 19–631 (2020). The federal government cannot exempt itself from the anti-robocall provisions of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, 47 U. S. C....more

Cooley LLP

Alert: Supreme Court Preserves Limits on Autodialed Calls to Cell Phones, Overturns Government Debt Collection Exception

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In a widely anticipated decision in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, the US Supreme Court determined that an exception to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) that allowed robocalls to mobile...more

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What High Court Ruling Means For TCPA's Future

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On July 6, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants Inc. The court declined to invalidate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's automated calls to cellphones...more

Hogan Lovells

U.S. Supreme Court Finds TCPA’s Federal-Debts Exemption Unconstitutional; Leaves Rest of TCPA Intact

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On June 6, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc., et al., settling an issue that has lingered over litigation under the Telephone Consumer Protection...more

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The U.S. Supreme Court Broadens The TCPA Class Action Trap For Unwary Businesses

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Seyfarth Synopsis: While many businesses hoped that the U.S. Supreme Court would blow up the ban on autodialed calls in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), on July 6, 2020, the nation’s highest court issued its...more

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A Fractured Supreme Court Strikes Down and Severs the TCPA’s Government Debt Exemption, Leaving the Rest of the Statute Intact

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This week, a divided Supreme Court issued a plurality opinion in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc. (“Political Consultants”) striking down and severing a 2015 amendment to the TCPA, which exempts...more

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SCOTUS Rules TCPA Exception For Automated Calls To Collect Government Debts Violates First Amendment But Leaves TCPA’s General...

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On July 6, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s exception from its automated call restriction for calls to collect government debts...more

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Supreme Court Severs Government-Debt Exception From TCPA

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The US Supreme Court issued its decision in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants Inc. on July 6, invalidating the government-debt exception to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) but leaving the rest...more

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SCOTUS Severs and Removes Government Debt Exception to TCPA’s Restriction on Robocalling

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The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) was enacted in 1991 in response to a surge in consumer complaints regarding intrusive robocalls. As noted in the legislative history, consumers were “outraged” and considered...more

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The Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Robocalls

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The Supreme Court affirmed the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s  (TCPA) prohibition on robocalls this week – with one caveat. In Barr v. Am. Ass’n of Political Consultants, No. 19-631, July 6, 2020, the court struck down...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Supreme Court Upholds Constitutionality of the TCPA

On July 6, 2020, in a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the TCPA, but severed as unconstitutional the government debt exception. William P. Barr et al. v. American Association of Political...more

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SCOTUS Decides Federal Debt is not Exempted from TCPA, While FCC Autodialer Declaration Further Alters TCPA Landscape

With a major U.S. Supreme Court decision leading the way, recent developments continue to reshape the landscape of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Death by a Thousand Cuts? Supreme Court Finds Government Debt Exception to TCPA Unconstitutional, Opening Door to Similar Attacks...

On July 6, 2020, the United States Supreme Court affirmed a ruling by the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which found that an exception allowing government debt-related robocalls to cell phones is unconstitutional...more

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Winnowed TCPA Survives Constitutional Challenge Before U.S. Supreme Court

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The United States Supreme Court issued its much-awaited decision in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants on Monday, July 6, striking down the government-backed debt exemption in the Telephone Consumer...more

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Supreme Court Severs Unconstitutional Provision of TCPA Exempting Robocalls Made To Collect Government Debt

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Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc., No. 19-631, 2020 WL 3633780 (U.S. July 6, 2020) *             Procedural History of the Case Plaintiffs; political and nonprofit organizations seeking to make...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Supreme Court Resolves Constitutional Challenge to Telephone Consumer Protection Act

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The U.S. Supreme Court on July 6, 2020, issued its long-awaited opinion in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, which addressed whether a 2015 amendment to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)...more

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Supreme Court Decides Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants

On July 6, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, No. 19-631, holding that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (TCPA) exception for calls made for the sole purpose of...more

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Can’t Win For Losing: Supreme Court Strikes Down Only TCPA’s Debt-Collection Exception

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Handing challengers a win but not their sought-after remedy, a fragmented U.S. Supreme Court refused to strike down the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), a federal law that broadly prohibits so-called “robocalls,”...more

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