In an amicus curiae brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in connection with the Court’s consideration of Facebook v. Duguid, et al., the U.S. Government requested the Court narrowly

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released its Tentative September 30th Open Meeting Agenda. Notably, the agenda includes a draft STIR/SHAKEN Order. It continues the FCC’s implementation of the TRACED Act

Political campaigns are in full swing. Soon candidates and political parties will be calling and texting to solicit money, votes, opinions, or all three. Political campaigns are not exempt from

Last week, in Allan v. Pa. Higher Educ. Assistance Agency, the Sixth Circuit became the latest court of appeals to consider what functionality a system must possess to be an

On July 27, 2020, the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau designated USTelecom’s Industry Traceback Group (ITG) as the official consortium to coordinate efforts to trace back the source of illegal robocalls. ITG

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments in Duguid v. Facebook, a case that will hopefully settle at last how an automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS) is defined

In 2015, Congress exempted calls made to collect debts owed to or guaranteed by the United States from the TCPA’s autodialer restrictions. Today, in Barr v. American Association of Political

The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) has issued a Declaratory Ruling reaffirming that click-to-text systems requiring human intervention for each individual text message are not automatic telephone dialing systems (“ATDS”). The

The state attorneys general (“AGs”) have signaled that they are ramping up their efforts to combat illegal telephone calls. Fifty-two AGs, including American Samoa and Puerto Rico, recently issued a

In the 2017 case ACA v. FCC, the D.C. Circuit Court confirmed prior Federal Communications Commission (FCC) guidance that Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) consent to be called can be