Facebook Inc. v. Duguid
U.S. Supreme Court · decided April 1, 2021 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Decided
- April 1, 2021
- Term
- October Term 2020
- Vote
- 9–0
- Majority author
- Justice Sotomayor
- Issue area
- Economic Activity
- Disposition
- Reversed and remanded
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
(Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2020 1 Syllabus NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U.S. 321 , 337. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Syllabus FACEBOOK, INC. v. DUGUID ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT No. 19–511. Argued December 8, 2020—Decided April 1, 2021 The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA) proscribes abu- sive telemarketing practices by, among other things, restricting cer- tain communications made with an “automatic telephone dialing sys- tem.” The TCPA defines such “autodialers” as equipment with the capacity both “to store or produce telephone numbers to be called, us- ing a random or sequential number generator,” and to dial those num- bers. 47 U.S. C . §227(a)(1). Petitioner Facebook, Inc., maintains a social media platform that, as a security feature, allows users to elect to receive text messages when someone attempts to log in to the user’s account from a new device or browser. Facebook sent such texts to Noah Duguid, alerting him to login activity on a Facebook account linked to his telephone…
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