Legal Research

Text Messages are Calls

By jlutz99

Text messages to cell phones in regards to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act are calls.  The case arose from Simon & Schuster sending text message advertisements to cell phones.  According to the recent case Laci Satterfield v. Simon and Schuster under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act "call" should  encompass both voice calls and text calls.  The TCPA prohibits automatic phone dialling to cell phones. 

Posted by Jon Lutz

Full post as published by FSU College of Law Library Blog on July 02, 2009 (boomark / email).