One of the first hurdles in any litigation is to determine whether the court has jurisdiction over a defendant who resides out-of-state. If jurisdiction cannot be established, then the plaintiff must bear the added expense of bringing the suit in ...
Last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released the fifth in a series of orders since 1998 modifying its rules relating to "slamming" (the unauthorized changing of a subscriber's telecommunications service provider). In the process ...
During the past year, the radio industry has experienced an unprecedented wave of mergers and acquisitions. The dramatic changes in station ownership were made possible by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (the "Telecommunications Act"), which ...
Plaintiff Planned Parenthood Affiliates of Michigan ("PPAM") sought a preliminary injunction to prevent the enforcement of Rule 169.39(b) of the Michigan Administrative Code as unconstitutional. The rule prohibited the use of a candidate's name or ...
In the days and weeks following the dramatic collapse of energy giant Enron, the calls for legislation designed to avert "the next Enron" began. In recent months, numerous legislative and regulatory proposals have been put forward, and government ...
A federal court in the Ninth Circuit has ruled in an important recent case, that debt ratings issued by rating agencies are not financial advice, and reaffirmed that such ratings are speech that is constitutionally protected under the First ...
Following his party's significant losses in Japan's parliamentary elections held on July 12, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto resigned the following day. Briefing reporters on Monday, White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry commented on the "close ...
QUESTION 28. -CAN THE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONS VOTE BY SECRET BALLOT FOR THEIR CHAIRMAN? Yes. By specific statute County Boards of Commissioner must vote in the open and their votes recorded by individual except for their vote on who shall serve ...
On November 24, 2003 the Federal Communication Commission's ("FCC") number portability rule ("Rule") went into effect in the largest 100 metropolitan statistical areas. The remaining areas will have until May 24, 2004 to comply. In addition to ...
On Sunday, October 1, 2000, while most of us were watching football and the closing ceremonies of the Sydney Olympic games on television, one of the most profound changes to the way we do business took effect: The Electronic Signatures in Global and ...