Satterfield v. Simon and Schuster, Inc.

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
spam text messages

About This Case

In the case of Satterfield v. Simon and Schuster, Inc. a federal court of appeals ruled that texting is as much a violation of the TCPA as calls. (Also see 2003 TCPA Order, 18 FCC Rcd at 14115, para. 165 (noting that text messaging is a form of communication used primarily between telephones and is therefore consistent with the definition of a “call”).