Supreme Court Asked to Take Up Robocall Autodialer Case (2)

A fitness company is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on the type of equipment businesses can use to send robocalls.

Crunch San Diego LLC petitioned the high court to review a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that held devices that make calls to selected numbers can be autodialers under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. The TCPA restricts the use of autodialers in telemarketing.

Courts have split over how to define “autodialer” after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit scrapped the Federal Communications Commission’s latest interpretation of ...