CommLaw Monitor
Carpenters, Carriers, and Cell-Sites (Oh My!): SCOTUS to Hear Mobile Locational Privacy Case
On June 5, 2017, the United States Supreme Court granted cert in Carpenter v. United States, a case in the hotly contested area of mobile cellular location data privacy. The question before the Court is whether law…
That Won’t Fly: The D.C. Circuit Strikes Down the FAA’s Registration Regime for Recreational Drones
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (“D.C. Circuit”) struck down an FAA regulation that required the owners of small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (“UAS”) to register with the agency…
Sprint and Windstream Waste No Time Appealing Business Data Services Order
On May 8, 2017, merely ten days after the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) adopted its Report & Order (“BDS Order”) deregulating the market for Business Data Services (“BDS”), Sprint and Windstream petitioned…
Open Internet Rules Hit the Federal Register, Triggering Effective Dates and Appeal Deadlines
On April 13, 2015, a notice and summary of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) seminal Open Internet Order (the Order) was published in the Federal Register. As we explained in an earlier blog post and…
D.C. Circuit Sends a Strong Signal in NAB Case – Public Notices May Not Be Reviewable
In May of this year, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) petitioned the D.C. Circuit to review a Public Notice issued by the Media Bureau. The Public Notice, entitled “Processing of Broadcast Television…