What’s in an Autodialer? Facebook Again Seeks High Court Clarity

Facebook Inc. wants the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve a circuit court split over the scope of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, after the high court’s Monday ruling upholding the anti-robocall statute.

The social network, in a brief filed Tuesday, urged the court to take up a 2019 petition asking for clarification of the term “autodialer” under the TCPA, an issue that has vexed lower courts.

Facebook says it’s time for the court assess the “autodialer” definition, now that it has affirmed the law’s constitutionality in its Monday decision in Barr v. AAPC. The company wants the justices to ...