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Constitutional Challenges First Amendment Petition for Writ of Certiorari

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Supreme Court to Decide Fate of Nation’s First Religious Charter School

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On January 24, 2025, the United States Supreme Court granted two petitions for certiorari in the cases of Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond and St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond,...more

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The NetChoice Social Media Cases: Back to the Beginning

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​​​​​​​In a past Trending Law Blog post on November 1, 2023, we discussed how the Supreme Court of the United States granted petitions for certiorari in Florida’s NetChoice LLC v. Moody case and Texas’ NetChoice LLC v. Paxton...more

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The CDC’s Eviction Moratorium Challenged Again, But Is It Different This Time?

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As I explained in greater detail here, on May 5, 2021, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia determined in Alabama Association of Realtors, et al. v. United States Department of Health and Human...more

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SCOTUS Upholds TCPA but Strikes Government Debt Collection Exception

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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

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

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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

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

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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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

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Supreme Court Agrees to Review TCPA’s Constitutionality

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

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

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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

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

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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

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Supreme Court Agrees To Review The Constitutionality of the TCPA

Given how often TCPA cases are filed—and how often they push the envelope of the statute’s scope and the courts’ jurisdiction—it should come as no surprise that the Supreme Court is often asked to bring some sanity to the...more

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The First Amendment Battleground: SCOTUS Asked to Review Two Ninth Circuit Decisions on the Constitutionality of the TCPA

In the span of fifteen days, TCPA defendants in two separate cases asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review two distinct but interwoven Ninth Circuit decisions on the constitutionality of the TCPA. Specifically, Facebook, Inc....more

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MarkIt to Market - February 2019: Trademark Practice Update: Outrageous! Disgraceful! Appalling!...or is it? SCOTUS to Decide the...

U.S. trademark attorneys received a New Year’s surprise last month when the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear Iancu v. Brunetti, the case that should determine the availability of federal trademark...more

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