SCOTUS Distributes Trim's TCPA Cert Petition for Justices’ Jan. 12 Conference

The U.S. Supreme Court distributed for the justices’ Jan. 12 conference plaintiff-appellant Lucine Trim's cert petition seeking to reverse the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ affirmation of the district court’s dismissal of her Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint against Reward Zone, said a text-only docket notice Wednesday (docket 23-495). After the 2021 SCOTUS opinion in Facebook v. Duguid, a “plethora” of courts have attempted to interpret the definition of an automatic telephone dialing system under the TCPA in the “context” of Facebook’s holding, said Trim’s Nov. 6 petition (see 2311140002). “The result has been nothing short of a mess,” and Trim’s case gives SCOTUS the “perfect opportunity” to clean it up, it said.