The Supreme Court decided the heavily-awaited appeal of the TCPA’s controversial ATDS definition.

This is NOT an April fool’s day prank.

Holding:

To qualify as an “automatic telephone dialing system,” a device must have the capacity either to store a telephone number using a random or sequential generator or to produce a telephone number using a random or sequential number generator.

In a unanimous opinion–which was issued this morning– the Court adopted a narrow interpretation of the statute.

More coverage shortly.

Decision here: Facebook v Duguid

Separately, I am never going on vacation again.