Facebook Asks Supreme Court to Decide Robocall Law’s Validity (1)

Facebook Inc. is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to decide the constitutionality of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by reviewing a Ninth Circuit ruling that an exception to its telemarketing call restrictions violates the First Amendment.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit nixed a TCPA provision that allows companies to use robocalls to collect government-owed debt, but it declined to invalidate the entire statute. Facebook had argued that the debt-collection language made the entire law unconstitutional because it distinguished speech based on content.

The company’s high court petition gives the justices a chance to weigh in on ...