An Arizona court struck a blow for cell phone users in the U.S., saying a 1991 federal ban on autodialers can be applied to text messaging spam.
The AP writes: “The unanimous ruling by a three-judge Court of Appeals panel upholds a trial judge’s pretrial ruling in favor of a man who had sued a mortgage company in 2001 after it sent two unsolicited text messages to his cell phone. Rodney L. Joffe claimed that the calls by Acacia Mortgage Corp. violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991.”
This guy was texting in 2001? Holy early adopter.
Acacia tried to skirt the issue saying it didn’t call him, so the autodialer law wouldn’t apply.
Via My Way News
