Monty Tayloe

1 week ago | communicationsdaily.com | Howard Buskirk |Monty Tayloe

While numerous law firms have struck a deal with the Trump administration, Jenner & Block, WilmerHale and Perkins Coie are fighting back. None of the firms that signed agreements, which pledged to provide hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of free work on behalf of the administration, are headquartered in Washington, D.C.Jenner is the only one of the firms opposing the orders that does substantial work representing clients at the FCC.

1 week ago | communicationsdaily.com | Monty Tayloe

“I can't tell you how it would fare under a particular standard until you tell me what the supposedly invidious discrimination is. And I just don't see a lot of there there,” said Free Press General Counsel Matt Wood. “I think it would be very hard to win that case for the government,” even assuming targeted companies were violating discrimination laws internally, said James Copeland, director of legal policy for the Manhattan Institute.

2 weeks ago | communicationsdaily.com | Monty Tayloe

Communications Daily is required reading for senior executives at top telecom corporations, law firms, lobbying organizations, associations and government agencies (including the FCC). Join them today! Both NAB and NCTA said Calm Act language instructed the FCC only to require broadcasters and multichannel video program distributors to implement the ATSC’s recommended practices for handling commercial loudness -- often called A/85.

2 weeks ago | communicationsdaily.com | Monty Tayloe

Communications Daily is required reading for senior executives at top telecom corporations, law firms, lobbying organizations, associations and government agencies (including the FCC). Join them today! The notice-and-comment order, entitled Directing the Repeal of Unlawful Regulations, instructs agency heads to repeal regulations that are “facially unlawful” under a number of recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions. The SCOTUS decisions listed include the major questions doctrine case West Virginia v.

2 weeks ago | communicationsdaily.com | Monty Tayloe

An ATSC 1.0 sunset is the difference between 9 megabits of excess broadcaster spectrum available for datacasting in the average market and “probably something close to 100,” said Sinclair CEO Chris Ripley. “We can absolutely run a very robust business with what we have, but it just pours gasoline on it when we increase capacity.” The FCC put NAB’s late February petition calling for a nationwide sunset out for comment Monday (see 2504070040).