{"id":26618,"date":"2020-07-06T14:55:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T21:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26618"},"modified":"2020-07-06T14:55:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T21:55:57","slug":"supreme-court-upholds-regulation-banning-robocalls-to-cellphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26618","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court upholds regulation banning robocalls to cellphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a decades-old federal regulation that prohibits robocalls to cellphones and expanded the ban to include government debt-collection calls.<\/p>\n<p>A divided court preserved most of a 1991 law that imposed a general ban on automated calls. But the justices struck down an amendment that Congress passed in 2015 to carve out an exception for robocalls to collect government debt.<\/p>\n<p>The case, which was argued by conference call in May due to the coronavirus, arose after a political consulting trade group asked the justices to strike down the entire Telephone Consumer Protection Act on free speech grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The justices declined to go that far, deciding that the unconstitutional government debt-collection exception could be stripped from the otherwise lawful regulation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvoking the First Amendment, they argue that the 2015 government-debt exception unconstitutionally favors debt-collection speech over political and other speech,\u201d Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote for the court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hold that the 2015 government-debt exception added an unconstitutional exception to the law,\u201d he added. \u201cWe cure that constitutional violation by invalidating the 2015 government-debt exception and severing it from the remainder of the statute.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday upheld&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26619,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26618\/revisions\/26619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}