(March 14, 2018, 11:30 AM EDT) -- SAN DIEGO — A California federal judge on March 12 declined to issue a stay in a class suit accusing a home improvement products company of placing unwanted phone calls to cell phones using an automated telephone dialing system (ATDS), ruling that discovery may proceed despite a pending appeal challenging the Federal Communications Commission definition of an ATDS (Lucas Ambezewicz, et al. v. GDFriend, Inc., No. 17-2234, S.D. Calif., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 40267)....