Supreme Court upholds law banning cellphone robocalls.
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a nearly 30-year-old ban on automated calls to cellphones despite concerns that it violates the First Amendment.
The ruling brought to a close an unusual case in which neither side sought the most acceptable result. Political consultants and pollsters wanted the original law declared unconstitutional, while the government wanted both the ban and the government-debt exception upheld.quipped during oral argument in May, the result was"the irony of a First Amendment challenge leading to the suppression of more speech as a remedy.
said during oral argument."The idea that Congress would embrace that result simply to save this government debt collection, they'd have to be very anxious to be more unpopular than they otherwise would be."
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