Source: https://atdsdefinition.com/statutes-and-cases
Timestamp: 2019-04-18 15:22:42+00:00

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(2) The terms automatic telephone dialing system and autodialer mean equipment which has the capacity to store or produce telephone numbers to be called using a random or sequential number generator and to dial such numbers.
In Heard v. Nationstar Mortgage LLC, the Court has held that the Avaya predictive dialer meets the definition of ATDS, even if the FCC's previous definitions of ATDS were overruled by the recent ACA v. FCC decision. The court zeroed in on the Avaya system's ability to "store" numbers, thus in part fitting the original statutory definition of an autodialer. Read the court's full opinion and order here. While this ruling is negative for the industry, there have been several positive rulings in recent months as well. The FCC will most likely be reevaluating its stance on autodialers in the upcoming months, as indicated in a recent letter from FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to several U.S. Senators. Although there have been court decisions on both sides of the issue, the upcoming FCC actions will be much more significant as the FCC is the agency charged with enforcing the TCPA and determining what an ATDS really is.
An opinion out of the Eastern District of Michigan has found that a dialer calling from a list does not automatically qualify as an ATDS under the TCPA unless it generates the dialed numbers sequentially or randomly. The court based this decision in part on the recent ACA v. FCC decision, which set aside the FCC's overly broad definition of ATDS. Read the full opinion here.
Two appellate court decisions in late June provide a favorable interpretation of ATDS for businesses in the industry. The cases, Dominguez v. Yahoo, Inc. and King v. Time Warner Cable Inc, were both pending when the DC Court of Appeals published its ACA vs. FCC decision which struck down the FCC's broad 2015 definition of ATDS. Both appellate courts in the above cases held that under the TCPA a device is not an ATDS unless it has the current capacity to dial random or sequentially generated numbers. Learn more about autodialer law. Read the two decisions here and here.
Yet another good click-to-call court decision this year: In Bria Maddox v. CBE Group, Inc., a judge has ruled that CBE's Manual Clicker Application is not an ATDS because it requires call-by-call human intervention. The judge has granted CBE's motion do dismiss the TCPA claim of the plaintiff. Read the full order here.

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