ATDS Loss Shows Why the Do Not Disturb Act Must Pass

It’s not a good morning when you wake up and your inbox has this opinion from the Third Circuit saying that if a telephone system doesn’t organically generate telephone numbers randomly or sequentially, it’s not an ATDS.

Still processing this and my next steps, but needed to get this article out there.

The Third Circuit’s decision today shows why Representative Pallone’s Do Not Disturb Act, HR 7116 must pass. The revised ATDS definition there avoids the very issue here by defining a “Robocall” as a call or text message sent using equipment that makes a call to stored telephone numbers.

TCPATalk: talk to your representatives about this bill and let’s work on getting some critical mass behind it for its passage. Pallone was able to get the TCPA passed in ‘91, he has what it takes to get it revised!