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· 6/3/2015

Michael David Williams v. State

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  • holding that ACA International \invalidated that [FCC 2015 Declaratory Ruling] and thereby removed any deference we might owe to the views the FCC expressed in it\
  • noting that the Second Circuit was not bound by the D.C. Circuit's reading of the TCPA following the latter court's set-aside of the 2015 Declaratory Ruling
  • noting that \the FCC expressly declined to adopt [a human-involvement] standard in its 2015 Order\ and \ventur[ing] no opinion on whether ... lack of human involvement is a consideration relevant to [plaintiff's] claims\
  • defining an ATDS as \a device that currently has features that enable it to perform the functions of an autodialer-whether or not those features are actually in use during the offending call\
  • defining an ATDS as “a device that currently has features that enable it to perform the functions of an autodialer— whether or not those features are actually in use during the offending call”
  • “Every exercise in statutory construction must begin with the words of the text.”

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