Good news for consumers: Today, the Supreme Court upholds the regulation banning robocalls to cellphones.

In a 7-2 opinion today, the Supreme Court upheld the TCPA while finding unconstitutional and severing the law’s 2015 amendment that exempted the government’s debt collection calls. In this lawsuit, political organizations claimed that prohibiting them from making robocalls to your cellphone was an unlawful restriction on speech. 

 

What does this mean for you? There is still a federal law to pursue entities illegally calling your cellphone and telephone number on the Do Not Call registry. 

 

The Court’s introduction recognized the importance of the law:

 

Americans passionately disagree about many things. But they are largely united in their disdain for robocalls. The Federal Government receives a staggering number of complaints about robocalls—3.7 million complaints in 2019 alone. The States likewise field a constant barrage of complaints. For nearly 30 years, the people’s representatives in Congress have been fighting back. As relevant here, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, known as the TCPA, generally prohibits robocalls to cell phones and home phones.

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