The 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that South Carolina’s ban on political automated phone calls violated the First Amendment. A Republican consultant was arrested for calls he set up to sample opinion. The 4th Circuit said the anti-robocal law was unconstitutional since it only designated political and commercial speech. (Courthouse News Service, August 12, 2014, by Charly Himmel)
Since the law did not apply to all robocalls, it was content-based and uncontitutional. (Law360, August 6, 2015, by Y. Peter King)