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THE WEEK, Page 17SOCIETYDialing for Dollars
Judge blocks a law restricting prerecorded phone sales pitches
Ring! Hello? Argh! You've missed the final seconds of an N.F.L.
play-off game to answer the phone only to hear a recorded voice
pitching some product you don't want. Why, there ought to be a
law . . . !
Actually there is. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act,
which restricts telephone solicitation, went into effect Dec.
20, and is already being challenged. Kathryn Moser, who runs a
chimney-sweeping business in Keizer, Oregon, says the law hurts
her marketing, and got U.S. District Judge James A. Redden to
issue a preliminary injunction on the part of the law that deals
with prerecorded phone solicitations. The injunction applies
nationwide, and the Federal Communications Commission will
probably contest it in court.