Testing The 'Strength And Validity' Of The Canons
April 13, 2021 at 12:46 PM Shares1 Ed. note: This article first appeared on The Juris Lab, a forum where “data analytics meets the law.” The Supreme Court recently handed down its verdict in Facebook, Inc. v. Deguid, a statutory interpretation case about section 227(a)(1) of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991. The Act prohibits the use of “automatic telephone dialing system[s]” to make calls “to any telephone number assigned to a . . . cellular telephone service” without the “prior consent of the called party.” At issue was the statutory definition of an autodialer...