Mealey's (July 7, 2020, 1:03 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a ruling that will likely affect the appeals in three lawsuits against Facebook Inc., a U.S. Supreme Court majority on July 6 upheld a ruling by the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that the government-debt exception to the prohibition on automated “robocalls” to cellphones under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) is a content-based exception that violates the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (William P. Barr, et al. v. American Association of Political Consultants Inc., et al., No. 19-631, U.S. Sup., 2020 U.S. LEXIS 3544)....