From: telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org   
      
   by David O. Klein   
      
   For several years, courts across the country have struggled to define   
   the term "Automatic Telephone Dialing System" ("ATDS") within the   
   context of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 ("TCPA"). The   
   TCPA prohibits making calls or sending text messages "(other than a   
   call made for emergency purposes or made with the prior express   
   consent of the called party) using an [ATDS] or an artificial or   
   prerecorded voice . . . to any telephone number assigned to a   
   . . . cellular telephone service."  In the spring of 2020, the Seventh   
   Circuit Court of Appeals, in Gadelhak v. AT&T Services, Inc., held   
   that a device must either store or produce numbers using a random or   
   sequential number generator to constitute an ATDS for TCPA liability   
   purposes. In doing so, the Seventh Circuit contributed to the growing   
   circuit split regarding the ATDS definition.  Gadelhak has since   
   appealed the decision to the United States Supreme Court. Now, AT&T   
   has asked the Supreme Court to stay Gadelhak's appeal pending its   
   anticipated decision on the same issue in Duguid v. Facebook.   
      
   https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/dodd-frank-consumer-protecti   
   n-act/999334/att-asks-scotus-to-stay-appeal-pending-its-tcpa-law   
   decision?email_access=on   
      
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