On July 6, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its widely anticipated decision in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants. As it turned out, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act-centric portion of the decision is largely a big snooze; the court made like the Queen of Hearts (“Off with their heads!”) by axing a portion of the statute that gave government debt collectors a special exemption. The rest of the statute, however, survives. Given that the decision means the TCPA will live on, we provide our thoughts on what we are watching for in TCPA litigation.

Why us? In the famous words of the Eagles, we can’t help but notice that there are many Johnny-come-latelies on both sides of the TCPA bar in South Florida. For better or worse, though, we’ve both been fighting TCPA fights for the last decade, and each of us has a fair assortment of battle scars and battle trophies on our walls.