U.S. Supreme Court,
Civil Litigation
Apr. 13, 2021
A first step towards restoring sanity to TCPA litigation
On April Fool’s Day 2021, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court put an end to a 30-year old ruse proliferated by the TCPA plaintiffs’ bar, holding that the Telephone Consumer Privacy Act plainly does not make it illegal to call stored phone numbers.
Maxwell V. Pritt
Partner
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
Max is an administrative partner of the firm's San Francisco office.
On April Fool's Day 2021, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court put an end to a 30-year old ruse proliferated by the TCPA plaintiffs' bar, holding that the Telephone Consumer Privacy Act plainly does not make it illegal to call stored phone numbers. Facebook v. Duguid, 2021 DJDAR 3014. The court ruled that an "automatic telephone dialing system," or ATDS, requires "that in...
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