Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the California Supreme Court in National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter v. City of Hayward. The case involves a request by the lawyers’ guild for written and electronic police records, including police body-worn camera (BWC) footage. The city [...]
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 5-22-19 The Senate Judiciary Committee took a hard look at digital advertising Tuesday (May 21), both from a standpoint of privacy and whether edge providers who are supported by the use of data for ads, are too big to be trusted not to abuse that power and not [...]
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 5-21-19 A clear majority of viewers do at least some of their video watching online rather than, or in addition to, broadcast or cable. That is according to the analysis of 2017 numbers crunched by the Trump Administration's top communications advisory arm, the National Telecommunications & Information Administration [...]
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 5-21-19 The reconfigured T-Mobile-Sprint deal appears to have the three votes needed to secure approval by the five-member FCC. That came after the companies volunteered a revised list of conditions that included divesting Boost Mobile, the low-cost prepaid wireless subsidiary; building out high-speed 5G wireless service to most [...]
Participated in an amicus letter (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of San Francisco in In Re: Ex Parte Application of Non-Party Journalist Bryan Carmody. The brief supports a motion by Carmody to compel the return of protected work product, [...]
Participated in an intervenors/amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the Belfast High Court in In re Fine Point Films & Trevor Birney. The case concerns filmmakers Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey, who were arrested for referencing an unpublished draft of a government report they received anonymously in their film [...]
Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in CIR v. SEPTA. This case concerns a policy of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (“SEPTA”) that bans certain advertisements on the Philadelphia-area transit system based on their content. The brief [...]
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 5-9-19 Drug companies will have to disclose the list price to patients for prescription drugs and biological products in their TV (broadcast, cable and satellite) and online ads. That is according to a final rule published by the Department of Health and Human Services, part of the Trump [...]
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 5-7-19 National Telecommunications & Information Administration Administrator David Redl said the country needs to change its approach to spectrum policy. One way to do that, a new national spectrum strategy he is helping implement, should be out soon, he said this week. But he also said another big [...]
Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Frasier v. Evans. The case deals with the fact that members of the public possess a qualified right, grounded in the First Amendment, to photograph and record police in public [...]