Government,
Administrative/Regulatory
May 21, 2016
Is FCC trying to expand its own authority?
The FCC has been systematically working to increase its own power. Brick-by-brick, ruling-by-ruling, it has chipped away at the bedrock foundation of agency action -- the notion that Congress must specifically empower an agency before it can regulate.
Eric J. Troutman
Partner
Squire Patton Boggs LLP
Email: eric.troutman@squirepb.com
UCLA SOL; Los Angeles CA
Eric is the czar of TCPAWorld.com and has served as lead counsel in nearly a hundred putative nationwide TCPA class actions, in addition to defending over a thousand individual TCPA suits in his role as national strategic litigation counsel for major banks and finance companies. He now leads one of the nation's most powerful TCPA defense teams in the firm's Los Angeles office.
The Federal Communications Commission has become accustomed to seeing itself on the front pages. From net neutrality to the cable box wars, the commission has not been shy about flexing its muscle on controversial issues. Indeed, the FCC's five commissioners seem enjoy the attention, engaging in combative open meetings and penning lengthy dissents and responsive footnotes to one another. It all seems so playful and harmless.
But under the cover of this superficial rabblerousing, the...
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