Apple Magazine - USA - Issue 454 (2020-07-10)

The Supreme Court upheld a 1991 law that bars
robocalls to cellphones.
The case, argued by telephone in May because
of the coronavirus pandemic, only arose after
Congress in 2015 created an exception in
the law that allowed the automated calls for
collection of government debt.
Political consultants and pollsters were among
those who asked the Supreme Court to strike
down the entire 1991 law that bars them from
making robocalls to cellphones as a violation of
their free speech rights under the Constitution.
The issue was whether, by allowing one kind of
speech but not others, the exception made the
whole law unconstitutional.

SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS CELLPHONE ROBOCALL BAN