Mealey's (August 23, 2019, 8:42 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Aug. 22 denied without comment the U.S. government’s petition to rehear an appeal in which, in addition to ruling that Facebook Inc. could be sued for violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) via unwanted text messages, the panel found an amendment to the statute to be in violation of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (Noah Duguid v. Facebook Inc., No. 17-15320, 9th Cir.)....