Supreme Court To Address Automated Dialer Issue In Facebook Text Message Suit

Mealey's (July 9, 2020, 3:04 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In its last order list of the term, the U.S. Supreme Court on July 9 granted a petition for certiorari in which Facebook Inc. questioned the definition of an automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS) under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA) after the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals revived a putative class action against it under the statute for automated account notification text messages that the social network sent to people’s cellphones (Facebook Inc. v. Noah Duguid, et al., No. 19-511, U.S. Sup.)....