December 16, 2024
Roman Martinez of Latham & Watkins LLP approaches oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court as if they were just another dinner with family or friends — people he's argued with since he was a kid.
July 06, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday fueled the already booming Telephone Consumer Protection Act litigation landscape by expanding the universe of illegal robocalls, but the fragmented nature of the ruling and unanswered questions about a key statutory term leave the door open for companies to fight back.
July 06, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's sweeping ban on autodialed calls to cellphones, but found that an exception to that prohibition for calls made to collect federally backed debts must fall, rejecting an argument that would have drastically reduced the flood of litigation under the decades-old statute.
May 06, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday appeared generally in agreement that exempting robocalls to collect government-backed debt from the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's automated call ban was unconstitutional, but struggled with whether the proper remedy was to stop debt collectors from skirting the restriction or allow more businesses to make such calls.
May 05, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court is gearing up to consider the constitutionality of the most litigation-fueling provision of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, a challenge that will not only raise thorny First Amendment issues, but could also drastically transform the liability that companies face for placing autodialed calls.
April 27, 2020
The federal government made its final pitch Friday to the U.S. Supreme Court ahead of remote oral arguments slated for next week in a fight over the constitutionality of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, reiterating its assertion that the statute's sweeping ban on autodialed calls doesn't raise any First Amendment concerns.
April 01, 2020
Facebook, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and more than a half-dozen others have joined the push to convince the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's autodialer ban, arguing that axing the entire speech-abridging provision is the only way to properly remedy First Amendment deficiencies.
March 30, 2020
Charter Communications Inc. pressed a Connecticut federal judge to pause a proposed class action alleging the telecom giant made illegal debt-collection robocalls to noncustomers, saying that upcoming "critical decisions" by the U.S. Supreme Court and Second Circuit "cut to the heart" of the case.
March 25, 2020
Political groups challenging the constitutionality of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's blanket ban on autodialed calls to cellphones are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate the entire litigation-fueling provision, arguing that merely severing an exemption for government-backed debt calls would not cure First Amendment issues.
March 02, 2020
The Senate Democrat who authored the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, more than a dozen of his congressional colleagues and Verizon are among those urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a constitutional challenge to the statute's blanket ban on autodialed calls to cellphones, arguing that invalidating the provision would have a "devastating impact" on consumers.