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- THE WEEK, Page 17SOCIETYDialing for Dollars
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- Judge blocks a law restricting prerecorded phone sales pitches
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- 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 . . . !
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- 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.
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