In the wake of the D.C. Circuit’s opinion vacating the Federal Communications Commission’s order interpreting the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), federal courts have disagreed on how to define an “automated telephone dialing system” (“autodialer”) under the statute. Judge Edmond E. Chang of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois recently stepped into the fray, holding in Gadelhak v. AT&T Service, Inc., that equipment qualifies as an autodialer only if it has the (present) capacity to generate numbers randomly or sequentially.
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