TCPA, Preemption, and the First Amendment: Why Every Practitioner Should Read Patriotic Veterans, Inc. v. State of Indiana

Last week, the Seventh Circuit (Judge Flaum, Judge Rovner, and Judge Castillo, Chief Judge of the Northern District, sitting by designation) undertook the heady task of analyzing the interplay of Indiana’s Automated Dialing Machine Statute (“Autodialer law”) and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, 47 U.S.C.  227 (“TCPA”).  Patriotic Veterans, Inc. v. Indiana, Case No. 11-3265 (Nov. 21, 2013) (“Patriotic Veterans”).  Both the context of the dispute, as well as the unresolved constitutional issue, keeps this case on our “Must Watch” list for 2014.

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