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PrawfsBlawg
Notes on Barr v. AAPC
Main Monday, July 06, 2020Notes on Barr v. AAPCThere is a lot in the Court's decision in Barr v. AAPC, declaring invalid the government-debt exception (enacted in 2015) to the…
Privacy Zone
SCOTUS Win Against Robocalls
Today the U.S. Supreme Court found in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc. that the federal debt collection exemption to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s general prohibition on…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
SCOTUS Finds Exception in Robocalls Prohibition Statute Violates First Amendment
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawIn its opinion in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants the United States Supreme Court held a provision…
Ad Law Access
Beginning of a TCPA Clean-Up? FCC Sets Another Robocall Blocking Item for Vote While Addressing Two of Nearly Three Dozen Pending Petitions
By Alysa Z. Hutnik, Lauri A. Mazzuchetti, Kelley Drye
On the same day that the FCC set a call blocking declaratory ruling for vote at its July 2020 Open Meeting, the FCC’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau issued rulings…
CommLaw Monitor
Beginning of a TCPA Clean-Up? FCC Sets Another Robocall Blocking Item for Vote While Addressing Two of Nearly Three Dozen Pending Petitions
By Lauri A. Mazzuchetti, Alysa Z. Hutnik
On the same day that the FCC set a call blocking declaratory ruling for vote at its July 2020 Open Meeting, the FCC’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau issued rulings…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Think Twice Before Marketing with Robocalls
Sales and marketing professionals in companies are usually energetic, vivacious and creative. That’s what makes them so good at their jobs. But it’s also these excitable folks who can get…
CommLawBlog
FCC Invites Comments on its Attempts to Stop Scam Calls
By FHH Law
On May 6, 2020, we wrote about several steps taken by the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) to deter robocalls, implementing new authority given by Congress last year in the Pallone-Thune…
Security, Privacy and the Law
Privacy v. Speech? Supreme Court to Weigh in on TCPA Restrictions on Automated Calls
The Supreme Court on May 6, 2020 heard oral argument on a widely-watched First Amendment case that may have broad ramifications for the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and, potentially, government…
CommLawBlog
FCC Lobs More Fireballs at Robocallers and Spoofers
By Seth Williams, FHH Law
The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) has taken several steps in recent years to deter robocalls of all kinds, with some success, but not enough to give us poor ordinary folks…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Argument Preview: Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants
Steven D. Schwinn, UIC John Marshall Law SchoolThe Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc., the case testing whether the…