Discrimination, Certiorari

SCOTUS Upholds TCPA but Strikes Government Debt Collection Exception

BCLP on 7/15/2020

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA") has been the subject of significant class and consumer litigation risk exposure for many industries, including financial institutions. In a July 6 ruling, the United States...more

Supreme Court Strikes Down Government-Backed Debt Exception; TCPA Stands

Womble Bond Dickinson on 7/7/2020

Earlier today the Supreme Court released its decision in Barr v. Political Consultants, a case which attempted to end the TCPA as we know it. Instead, the Court struck down a narrow exception to the TCPA, known as the...more

Supreme Court leaves TCPA intact; strikes down exception for government debt collection

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 7/7/2020

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) remains in place, but the exception permitting robocalls for government debt collection has fallen, in a decision by the US Supreme Court addressing the constitutionality of the...more

To Sever or Not to Sever: Supreme Court Grapples With Political Consultants’ First Amendment TCPA Challenge

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 5/21/2020

Seyfarth Synopsis: On May 6, 2020, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a First Amendment challenge to a 2015 amendment to the TCPA, which exempted calls regarding debts owed to the government from certain of its...more

Supreme Court Debates Whether to Flush TCPA’s Autodialer Restriction During Barr v. AAPC Oral Argument

Womble Bond Dickinson on 5/13/2020

It seems that the oral argument in Barr, Attorney General v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc. may become better known for the toilet flush that could be heard in the course of the argument, rather than the...more

Duran v. La Boom Disco: It Is Time For SCOTUS To Decide The ATDS Issue

Burr & Forman on 4/10/2020

Those of us who have been litigating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) have spent the better part of the last decade trying to determine what constitutes an automated telephone dialing system (“ATDS”). ...more

Supreme Court To Decide Constitutionality of Government-Backed Debt Exception

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 3/16/2020

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on the constitutionality of the exception to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) for government-backed debt, namely whether that exception violates the First Amendment...more

Supreme Court Grants Certiorari To Review Fourth Circuit’s TCPA Decision

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Class Dismissed on 1/30/2020

On January 10, 2020, the Supreme Court granted certiorari to review the Fourth Circuit’s decision to strike the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (TCPA) “government-debt exemption.” See Am. Ass’n of Political Consultants,...more

Supreme Court Agrees to Review TCPA’s Constitutionality

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 1/17/2020

The U.S. Supreme Court has granted certiorari to review whether a 2015 amendment to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) violates the First Amendment and/or if it perhaps renders the statute unconstitutional as a...more

Supreme Court to Review the Constitutionality of the Government-Backed Debt Exception to the TCPA

Womble Bond Dickinson on 1/15/2020

The TCPA is off to an exciting start this new year. On Friday, January 10, 2020, the Supreme Court granted the Petition for Certiorari filed in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants Inc., to review the...more

SCOTUS agrees to decide whether TCPA exception for calls to collect government debts violates First Amendment

Ballard Spahr LLP on 1/15/2020

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s exception from its automated call restriction for calls to collect government debts violates the First Amendment of the U.S....more

The Supreme Court - April, 2017

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 4/5/2017

The Supreme Court of the United States issued decisions in two cases today: McLane Co. v. EEOC, No. 15-1248: Damiana Ochoa filed a discrimination charge against petitioner McLane Co. when she was terminated after...more

The High Court Hears Argument: Is Gilbert’s Sign Ordinance Content-Neutral? What Standard of Review Should Apply?

Robinson & Cole LLP on 1/16/2015

Last summer, we reported that the U.S. Supreme Court granted Good News Community Church’s (Church) petition for a writ of certiorari to review the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Reed v. Town of...more

PDA and Young: Pregnancy Discrimination Law to Break from Its Infancy

Orrick - Employment Law and Litigation on 7/16/2014

On the heels of the Hobby Lobby decision in late June, the Supreme Court has signaled that women’s health issues in the workplace will continue to be a central issue by granting a petition for certiorari in Young v. United...more

U.S. Supreme Court Denied Petition Seeking Review of Fourth Circuit’s Interpretation of Wal-Mart v. Dukes

Moore & Van Allen PLLC on 7/14/2014

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Family Dollar Stores, Inc.’s petition for writ of certiorari seeking review of the Fourth Circuit’s decision in Scott, et. al. v. Family Dollar Stores, Inc., No. 12-1610 (4th Cir....more

Supreme Court Takes Up Landmark Disparate Impact Case, Again, Over U.S. Objections

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 6/20/2013

On June 17, 2013, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Mount Holly v. Mt. Holly Gardens Citizens in Action, Inc., No. 11-1507, to decide whether disparate impact claims are cognizable under the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”). It...more

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