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   Did A Prolific TCPA Plaintiffs' Attorney Just Argue That The Statute   
   Does Not Regulate Text Messaging? The Hearing Transcript Says "Yes."   
      
   by Daniel Blynn   
      
   For years, the plaintiffs' bar has been filing Telephone Consumer   
   Protection Act (TCPA) class actions alleging the receipt of   
   unsolicited, autodialed text messages. But the TCPA's autodialer   
   prohibition explicitly refers to "calls," not text messages, whereas   
   other provisions of the statute, namely the Truth in Caller ID Act,   
   expressly extend to both "text messaging service[s]." In fact, that   
   section of the TCPA even includes a definition for "text message."   
      
   Nonetheless, based on dicta from a decade-old Supreme Court decision   
   addressing whether federal courts have concurrent jurisdiction with   
   state courts over TCPA claims, Mims v. Arrow Financial Services, LLC,   
   the plaintiffs' bar regularly includes in its autodialer complaints an   
   allegation that text messages are calls for purposes of applying and   
   construing the TCPA. During the December 2020 oral argument before the   
   Supreme Court in Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid, Justice Clarence Thomas   
   questioned "why a text message is considered a call under the TCPA" in   
   the first place. But the issue was not before the Supreme Court; nor   
   did the Court address it in its decision.   
      
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