The Supreme Court Adopts Narrow Definition of Autodialers Under the TCPA
By EsqSocial Corporation 07/04/21
On April 1, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court adopted a narrow interpretation of a key clause of the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (“TCPA”), which restricts the use of devices known as “automatic telephone dialing systems” or “autodialers.” In a unanimous opinion in Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid et al., No. 19-511, the Court overturned a Ninth Circuit decision that broadly defined an autodialer to cover any equipment that has the capacity to store and dial numbers, regardless of...
By: Holland & Hart LLP