Welcome back for another week of What’s Next, where we report on the intersection of law and technology. This week, we hear the case for why SCOTUS shouldn’t pick up Facebook’s TCPA cert petition. And hacked Ring security users seek retribution. Plus, California courts grapple with when employers have to pay for workers’ time. Let’s chat: Email me at [email protected] and follow me on Twitter at @a_lancaster.
Is Facebook Trying to ‘Hamstring the TCPA’?
As Facebook and its Kirkland & Ellis and Latham & Watkins attorneys try to convince the U.S. Supreme Court why the justices should review an appeals court decision reviving a proposed class action claiming it violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act with unwanted texts, the respondent in the case and his counsel, Sergei Lemberg, argue the company is trying to narrow the scope of the law to outmoded forms of technology.
