Fourth Circuit Holding on Cellphone Calling Ban
Constitutionality of Public-Debt Exemption to the TCPA
Enacted in 1991, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) was a response by Congress to the reactions of American consumers over intrusive and unwanted phone calls. As a result of congressional concern with automated phone calls, the automated call ban prohibits phone calls to cellphones that use “any automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice.” …