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Higher Altitudes And Higher Standards: Advocating The Fcc Require Environmental Assessments For Mega- Constellations, John Latson 2023 Pepperdine University

Higher Altitudes And Higher Standards: Advocating The Fcc Require Environmental Assessments For Mega- Constellations, John Latson

The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law

This article will explore why the FCC’s current regime on categorical exclusions is ill-prepared for the developing mega-constellation industry, why the regime should be revised to require that companies launching mega-constellations file an Environmental Assessment (EA) as defined in the National Environmental Policy Act, and how such a change might fiscally impact these companies. Part II of this article will explore the National Environmental Policy Act, discussing the purpose of the Act and the goals Congress sought to accomplish. Part III will consider the FCC’s policy on categorical exclusions and EAs, with a comparison of how some other federal agencies …


Aclp - State Broadband Profile - Tennessee (July 2023), New York Law School 2023 New York Law School

Aclp - State Broadband Profile - Tennessee (July 2023), New York Law School

Reports and Resources

No abstract provided.


Disinformation And The First Amendment: Fraud On The Public, Wes Henricksen 2023 St. John's University School of Law

Disinformation And The First Amendment: Fraud On The Public, Wes Henricksen

St. John's Law Review

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Following the 2020 presidential election, the losing candidate, Donald Trump, along with most of the Republican Party, spread the false claim that the election had been stolen by Democrats. Joe Biden, so the claim went, had not been legitimately elected, and was therefore an illegitimate President and needed to be removed. This profitable falsehood6 became known as the “Big Lie.” It was not only baseless, but it was in fact made in spite of and in direct conflict with the overwhelming evidence debunking it. This did not stop people from believing it. Millions bought into the Big Lie, which …


Control As A Response Mechanism To The Variables Of The Constitutional Reality In The Maghreb Countries: Tunisia, Algeria And Morocco, Smaein Lebadi Dr. 2023 Assistant Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law, College of Law, University of Sharjah, UAE

Control As A Response Mechanism To The Variables Of The Constitutional Reality In The Maghreb Countries: Tunisia, Algeria And Morocco, Smaein Lebadi Dr.

مجلة جامعة الإمارات للبحوث القانونية UAEU LAW JOURNAL

In response to constitutional changes, and the tendency of the Maghreb countries to reinforce the rights and freedoms, constitutional monitoring has been incorporated through the exception mechanism of unconstitutionality of individuals, in the context of recent constitutional changes in the Maghreb countries: Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.

This mechanism, which is expected to be implemented in 2019 for the first time, although it is constitutionally prescribed, but the legislative texts organizing the mare different in terms of application which revolves between openness and tightening the rules in each of these countries .The Tunisian legislator has extended the scope of monitoring with …


Opaque Notification: A Country-By-Country Review, Lauren Mantel 2023 American University Washington College of Law

Opaque Notification: A Country-By-Country Review, Lauren Mantel

Joint PIJIP/TLS Research Paper Series

No abstract provided.


Aclp - Updated Estimates Of State Bead Allocations - As Of June 2023, New York Law School 2023 New York Law School

Aclp - Updated Estimates Of State Bead Allocations - As Of June 2023, New York Law School

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Aclp - Further Updated Estimates Of State Bead Allocations - As Of June 16, 2023, New York Law School 2023 New York Law School

Aclp - Further Updated Estimates Of State Bead Allocations - As Of June 16, 2023, New York Law School

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Boden Lecture: The Past’S Lessons For Today: Can Common-Carrier Principles Make For A Better Internet?, James B. Speta 2023 Marquette University Law School

Boden Lecture: The Past’S Lessons For Today: Can Common-Carrier Principles Make For A Better Internet?, James B. Speta

Marquette Law Review

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Amending Amendments: Digital Colonialism, Bill C-11, And Assessing The Call For Improvement, Kayla Victoria Destiny Clarke 2023 University of Windsor

Amending Amendments: Digital Colonialism, Bill C-11, And Assessing The Call For Improvement, Kayla Victoria Destiny Clarke

Major Papers

Media scholars Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejias (2019) define digital colonialism as the “term for the extension of a global process of extraction that started under colonialism and continues through industrial capitalism, culminating in today's new form: instead of natural resources in labor, what is now being appropriated is human life through its conversion into data” (p. 22). This research will critically analyze the Canadian government’s ill-received Bill C-11: the Amended Consumer Privacy Protection Act by using digital colonialism as a conceptual framework to reveal the Bill’s essential limitations. It will consist of two sections: 1) an in-depth exploration of …


Conviction On Interpretation, Advocate Adaptability, And The Future Of Emojis And Emoticons As Evidence, Samantha Lyons 2023 Seattle University School of Law

Conviction On Interpretation, Advocate Adaptability, And The Future Of Emojis And Emoticons As Evidence, Samantha Lyons

Seattle Journal of Technology, Environmental & Innovation Law

The dawning of the digital age introduced new and unique interpretive quandaries for judges and litigators alike. These quandaries include (but are not limited to) misinterpretation of pictorial slang as used in instant messaging, new or collateral meanings invented by phrases paired with specific emoticons or emojis, and the existence of emojis alone as communicative accessories.

This Note analyzes how lawyers and judges have essential free reign to treat emojis as they see fit: a prosecutor can argue, even in good faith, that the inclusion of an emoji depicting an open flame means the sender knew the heroin he sold …


A New Right Is The Wrong Tactic: Bring Legal Actions Against States For Internet Shutdowns Instead Of Working Towards A Human Right To The Internet (Part 1), Jay Conrad 2023 Seattle University School of Law

A New Right Is The Wrong Tactic: Bring Legal Actions Against States For Internet Shutdowns Instead Of Working Towards A Human Right To The Internet (Part 1), Jay Conrad

Seattle Journal of Technology, Environmental & Innovation Law

A New Right is the Wrong Tactic: Bring Legal Actions Against States for Internet Shutdowns Instead of Working Towards a Human Right to the Internet (Part 1) is the first of a two-part series dealing with an increasingly prevalent threat to human rights: State-sanctioned Internet shutdowns. Part 1 details the current tactics and impacts of Internet shutdowns and which human rights are most likely to be violated by or during a shutdown. Part 2 will address the deficiencies of advocating for Internet access to be a recognized human right as a means of combatting shutdowns. Despite the popularity of this …


Aclp - Comments To Ntia Re Digital Equity Act Grants Programs - May 2023, New York Law School 2023 New York Law School

Aclp - Comments To Ntia Re Digital Equity Act Grants Programs - May 2023, New York Law School

Reports and Resources

No abstract provided.


Necessity, Proportionality, And Executive Order 14086, Alex Joel 2023 American University Washington College of Law

Necessity, Proportionality, And Executive Order 14086, Alex Joel

Joint PIJIP/TLS Research Paper Series

No abstract provided.


Regulatory Paralysis: The Answer To The Unanswerable Question Of Fcc Minority Ownership Policy, Christopher Terry 2023 Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota

Regulatory Paralysis: The Answer To The Unanswerable Question Of Fcc Minority Ownership Policy, Christopher Terry

Michigan Technology Law Review

For five decades, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has struggled to implement policies that promote minority ownership of broadcast stations. Four “Prometheus” decisions from the Third Circuit span a seventeen-year legal impasse that highlighted the agency’s shortcomings on effective minority ownership policies. Now, after the Supreme Court’s 2021 decision in FCC v. Prometheus Radio Project, the FCC is required to relaunch its media ownership policy in 2022. This paper explores how the FCC has interpreted diversity in media ownership policymaking by examining a range of diversity policies and assessment methodologies particularly regarding minority ownership. The paper then presents data from …


Answering The Call For Telephone Consumer Protection Act Reform: Effectuating Congressional Intent Within 47 U.S.C. § 227(B)(1)(A), Justice M. Hubbard 2023 University of Michigan Law School

Answering The Call For Telephone Consumer Protection Act Reform: Effectuating Congressional Intent Within 47 U.S.C. § 227(B)(1)(A), Justice M. Hubbard

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Note analyzes the current state of the civil law surrounding the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and highlights a glaring flaw within the current practice of assigning liability to telephonic solicitors utilizing an automatic telephone dialing system (autodialer): solicitors can be subjected to liability even though their actions are not what Congress intended to prevent. Congress enacted the TCPA in response to unique consumer privacy and public safety concerns. For example, the use of an autodialer created a substantial likelihood that autodialers would call emergency services and could “seize” their telephone lines and prevent those lines from being utilized …


Masthead, 2023 UC Law SF

Masthead

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

No abstract provided.


Free Expression In Private Stadia: The Public-Private Nexus And The Reclamation Of Free Expression In Sport, Michael K. Park 2023 UC Law SF

Free Expression In Private Stadia: The Public-Private Nexus And The Reclamation Of Free Expression In Sport, Michael K. Park

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

This Article examines how the degree of government and military entwinement with the private enterprise of sport may provide a sufficient nexus for state action, arming athletes with First Amendment protection they would otherwise not possess against private entities. It reviews sport’s historical and cultural ties to militarism and its venerated symbols before exploring the applicability of the theories of state action within the context of private stadia. Anchored by the symbiotic relationship theory, this Article analyzes how the interdependent relationship between the government/military and private sport enterprise may provide the mutual benefits necessary to establish a sports franchise as …


Border Search Rationales Ripe For Abuse, With Journalists Particularly At Risk, Bryan Sykes 2023 UC Law SF

Border Search Rationales Ripe For Abuse, With Journalists Particularly At Risk, Bryan Sykes

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

No abstract provided.


Gonzalez V. Google: Testing The Boundaries Of Section 230, Ohona Chowdhury 2023 UC Law SF

Gonzalez V. Google: Testing The Boundaries Of Section 230, Ohona Chowdhury

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

No abstract provided.


Federal Protection Of Illegal Short-Term Rentals: How The Protecting Local Authority And Neighborhoods Act Will Hold Airbnb Liable, Enforcing Local Regulations, Nicole Schaeffer 2023 The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law

Federal Protection Of Illegal Short-Term Rentals: How The Protecting Local Authority And Neighborhoods Act Will Hold Airbnb Liable, Enforcing Local Regulations, Nicole Schaeffer

Catholic University Law Review

Section 230 has come under scrutiny from academics and politicians, leading to calls on lawmakers to limit, or even end, Section 230’s immunity for Internet corporations; however, less attention has been given to the effects of Section 230 on the legal landscape in local, off-line communities. Online providers of short-term rental (STR) services such as Airbnb have used Section 230’s protection to shift the burden of complying with local laws and lease agreements onto the users listing STRs. By wielding Section 230 as both a sword and shield in litigation over their listings that violate local laws and lease agreements, …


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