automatic telephone dialing system

On Friday, July 24, the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation issued an Order consolidating in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals three timely petitions for review of a July 10, 2015 Declaratory Ruling and Order of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). That Order resolved 21 petitions for declaratory ruling, proposed rulemaking and clarification

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A recent state court decision in California, and before it, a district court decision in Alabama, both found that equipment used to facilitate telephone communications must have the current capacity to randomly or sequentially generate telephone numbers in order to be considered an “automatic telephone dialing system.”