9th Circuit Won’t Stay Mandate In TCPA Dispute Over Facebook Text Messages

Mealey's (September 17, 2019, 12:58 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Three weeks after it denied rehearing of a decision in which it revived a lawsuit against Facebook Inc. under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) for sending unwanted text messages, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Sept. 12 denied the social network’s motion to stay its mandate in light of a pending petition for certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court (Noah Duguid v. Facebook Inc., et al., No. 17-15320, 9th Cir.)....