TCPA Litigation Update - The US Government Sides With Facebook - This Should Make Things Easy For SCOTUS [telecom]

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by Joshua Briones and Nicole V. Ozeran

Earlier this month, Facebook filed its brief in Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid. As we previously reported, in Duguid, the US Supreme Court will finally consider the question of "[w]hether the definition of ATDS in the TCPA encompasses any device that can 'store' and 'automatically dial' telephone numbers, even if the device does not 'us[e] a random or sequential number generator'" (Facebook Brief at i) - a question that has long plagued defendants and caused growing circuit splits.