Richard T. Van Bergen v. State of Minnesota Hubert H. Humphrey, Iii, in His Capacity as Attorney General of the State of Minnesota

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• concluding government had substantial interest, motivated by protecting consumer privacy, in limiting use of unsolicited sales calls by auto-dialing/announcing devices
• finding that Minnesota's interest in protecting its citizens from unwanted annoyances was a sufficient interest to regulate automated telephone calls
• upholding exemption where \the caller has a relationship with the subscriber implying the subscriber's consent to receive the caller's communications\
• upholding exemption where “the caller has a relationship with the subscriber implying the subscriber’s consent to receive the caller’s communications”
• rejecting an over-breadth argument because the affected third-party commercial entities were capable of bringing the constitutional claim themselves and because the statute would not likely chill their speech
• upholding a state analogue of the TCPA as a content-neutral time, place, or manner restriction

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