Supreme Court Narrows Scope Of TCPA In Landmark Autodialer Ruling [telecom]

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By Geanette A. Foster, Esteban Morales, Matthew Novian, Russell Fox, and Joshua Briones

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court expressly overturned the Ninth Circuit's decision in Marks v. Crunch San Diego, LLC, by holding, "to qualify as an 'automatic telephone dialing system' under the TCPA, a device must have the capacity either to store a telephone number using a random or sequential number generator, or to produce a telephone number using a random or sequential number generator."