Does The TCPA Apply To Text Messages? - Consumer Protection
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. As its name suggests, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 ("TCPA") was drafted, debated, passed, and signed into law well before cell phones became ubiquitous. It is, therefore, unsurprising that the statutory language of the TCPA does not expressly state whether the law applies to text messages. This was a subject of great interest in recent oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court ("SCOTUS") in Facebook"). In Facebook, several of SCOTUS's textualist Justices wonder...
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