Cases of Note
District of Delaware Holds It Can Hear TCPA Claims For Calls
Related to Government-Backed Debt Made During Time Such Calls Were
Seemingly Permitted by the Statute
Faced with a novel fact pattern, one federal court determined
that the Supreme Court s severing of the government-debt
exception means that the statute must be interpreted as if that
exception was never part of the law. As you may recall, the
Supreme Court decided
AAPC in July 2020, and held that the
TCPA s government debt exception (which was added in 2015) was
unconstitutional, severing it from the TCPA. We have previously
reported on a numberofdecisions following
Recent News - Petitions for Reconsideration of FCC’s December 2020 Report and Order - On March 17, 2021 Enterprise Communications Advocacy Coalition (ECAC).
April 4, 2021
First, it relates to protecting against disclosure of private information to the outside world, i. , the proper of people to find out how much and what information about themselves is to be revealed to others.646 Second, it relates inward toward notions of private autonomy, i. Unfortunately, a few of the Court’s cases recognized violations of a right of privacy without necessarily making this distinction clear. While the principle thrust of the Court’s elementary-rights analysis seems to emphasize the personal autonomy facet of privateness, now typically phrased as “liberty” pursuits, a clear analytical framework for parsing of those two ideas in several contexts has not but been established. The equal protection discussion within the public funding case bears closer examination because of its significance for later cases. The equal safety query arose because public funds have been being made available for medical care to indigents, including costs attend