May 10, 2024
A divided Second Circuit panel upheld the dismissal of a suit claiming that the sandwich chain Subway illegally spammed consumers' phones with automated texts, finding that a Connecticut federal judge was right in ruling that the marketing campaign didn't use an autodialer as defined by federal law.
July 18, 2022
A Connecticut federal judge on Monday axed a putative class action accusing sandwich chain Subway of blasting consumers with unsolicited texts, finding that the equipment used to send the messages didn't qualify as an autodialer under the U.S. Supreme Court's narrow reading of the term.