The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a law banning automated calls to cellphones could stand while eliminating the exception of calls for debt collection from those owing the government money on the grounds that it was based on the content of speech. In its decision the court acknowledged the public’s dislike of robocalls. (USA TODAY, July 6, 2020, by Richard Wolf)
(Eugene Volokh of The Volokh Conspiracy, Reason, July 6, 2020, thought the decision significant in that it revealed a split on content discrimination between the court’s conservative and liberal jurors.