CommLaw Monitor

News and analysis from Kelley Drye’s communications practice group

FCC Extends Review of E-Reader Coalition Petition

Kelley Drye Telecommunications paralegal Jennifer Rodden contributed to this post. Earlier this year, a coalition of e-reader manufacturers (Amazon, Kobo and Sony Electronics) petitioned for waiver from the disabled…

What Telecom Carriers Need to Know about the EPA's Facility Compliance Enforcement

Earlier this year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reached a $1.375 million settlement with New Cingular Wireless, resolving the company's self-disclosed violations of the Emergency Planning and…

E-Reader Coalition Seeks Waiver of Disabled Access Requirements

On August 1, 2013, the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC" or "Commission") released a Public Notice seeking comment by September 3, 2013 on a petition for waiver from the disabled access requirements filed by a…

Breaking the Sham Barrier in Yeager v. Bowlin

Two recent Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decisions in Yeager v. Bowlin, Nos. 10-15297 and 10-16503 (9th Cir. Sept. 10, 2012), a Lanham Act and right-of-publicity dispute between legendary test pilot Gen. Charles…

Ninth Circuit Pulps POM Wonderful's Lanham Act Claims Against Coca-Cola, Affirming FDA Preclusion of Challenge to Regulated Food Labeling

A panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled May 17 on an appeal from summary judgment in a case filed by pomegranate juice maker POM Wonderful against the Coca-Cola Company's Minute Maid division. The dispute…