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Wednesday, April 7, 2021 On April 1, 2021, the Supreme Court answered a question that has been at the heart of the recent wave of class-action litigation under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA) in its long-awaited ruling in  Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid. Contrary to decisions from lower courts and expansive rulings from the Federal Communications Commission, the Court adopted a narrow (and caller-friendly) reading of the TCPA that appears to exclude most modern dialing technology (including predictive dialers) that targets known lists of customers from the definition...

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. This is all about one of my favorite subordinating conjunctions: "because."   "It seems that the word 'because' is disappearing from the landscape of writers and editors, being replaced by 'since' and 'as,'" wrote reader Neal Lorenzi. I'd add the empty-calorie mouthful "due to the fact that" to the list. But Neal is not done making his point. "It's been happening for a long time. More and more sentences read: 'This engine offers better performance (since or as) it has 12 cylinders.' What's wrong with: 'This engine offers better performance beca...

(AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File) WASHINGTON (CN) — Ruling against a man who for months received messages about attempted Facebook log-ins from an unregistered device, the U.S. Supreme Court found Thursday that the social media giant’s account-specific security system is not the same thing as an illegal robocall that uses an automatic dialing system. The opinion emphasizes that in 1991 when the Telephone Consumer Protection Act was adopted Congress in particular was worried abut the harm of robocallers tying up emergency lines at random, or every line at a single location. This is partly why ...

  Julia McKay - Unitarian Universalist Rev. Julia McKay is the minister of High Plains Church Unitarian Universalist and a professional spiritual companion dedicated to embodied life practices that enhance our deepest ways of knowing. Does it make a difference if the government has a state-endorsed religion or a “preferred” but not officially sanctioned faith? What about nations with no official religion? Or those adverse to religion?  A state religion is often about who is granted civil rights, e.g., who has legal status, what “in group” is granted benefits ov...