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I'm not sure a wider reading of the TCPA is possible for the definition of an automatic dialing system. Is there any other way the courts could read the definition provided in https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/227 ?


Thanks for looking that up. Yeah, from what's quoted here, it's perfectly transparent.

  (1) The term “automatic telephone dialing system” means equipment which has the capacity—
    (A) to store or produce telephone numbers to be called, using a random or sequential number generator; and
    (B) to dial such numbers.
Anybody who's claiming the Court is playing games here clearly has an agenda of their own. Congress dropped the ball.


Look up Edelson, they are the troll firm that sued us. They have had significant success taking much wider interpretations of the law. Just like patent trolls they also assume most people will just settle - we did not but it was a gamble.

Here are some of the cases they brag about: https://edelson.com/inside-the-firm/905-2/




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