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FCC Announces Effective Date of New Filing Requirements for Domestic Section 214 Transfer of Control Applications

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Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) announced September 11, 2024 as the effective date of two rules initially adopted in the agency’s Team Telecom Process Reform Report and Order....more

Lerman Senter PLLC

FCC Issues $1.8 Million Penalty Against Nexstar and Mission; Orders Station Divestiture

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The FCC has fined Nexstar Media Group, Inc. and Mission Broadcasting, Inc. $1.8 million after finding Nexstar exercised de facto control over Mission’s Station WPIX (TV) in New York without FCC consent. The FCC also found...more

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Weighing in on a Debate: The Audio Division Finds No Consent Needed for Gradual Changes in Governing Boards

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For many years, attorneys who represent public broadcasters and other non-commercial educational licensees (NCEs) have debated whether an application for Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) consent must be...more

BCLP

BEIS issues anticipated National Security & Investment Act market guidance notes

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Following on from its first annual report on the National Security and Investment Act (“NSIA”) in June 2022 ), on 19 July 2022 the UK’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (“BEIS”) published its first set of...more

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Recent FCC Enforcement Actions

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Recent decisions by the FCC demonstrate continued enforcement against broadcast licensees who violate the FCC's rules. Below are two examples of recent enforcement actions. License Rescinded for Failure to Satisfy...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Fueling the DLOM Debate: Control Transfer Restrictions and the Discount for Lack of Marketability

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Of all the factors considered by business divorce lawyers and appraisers when valuing an owner’s interest in a closely-held company, the calculation and applicability of a discount for lack of marketability (“DLOM”) is among...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Don’t Short-Change, Change in Control Filings

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Most state mortgage finance, consumer credit, collection agency, sale finance, and money service business licensing laws have a provision that dictates what needs to be done or what needs to be filed in connection with the...more

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So Very Hard to Go (Not)! In Pursuit of Puerto Rican Tax Incentives

So Very Hard to Go - The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has had a hard time in the last ten years. PR has suffered a combination of devastating events including the Island’s bankruptcy, a hurricane and COVID19. The Puerto...more

Pillsbury - CommLawCenter

FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ September 2020

Pillsbury’s communications lawyers have published FCC Enforcement Monitor monthly since 1999 to inform our clients of notable FCC enforcement actions against FCC license holders and others...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

FCC Seeks Comment on Simplifying Filing Obligations for Pro Forma Transactions

An area in which businesses have repeatedly and inadvertently run afoul of the rules of the Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) is determining when a corporate transaction or restructuring involves changes in the...more

Foster Garvey PC

Federal Communications Commission Penalizes Marriott Vacations for Unauthorized Transfer of Private Radio Licenses

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Because many hotels and resorts hold Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) licenses for the wireless radios that employees use for daily communications on property, the next property acquisition or sale may have more...more

Morgan Lewis

NRC’s Reactor Decommissioning Financial Assurance Working Group Receives Public Comments

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The NRC’s Reactor Decommissioning Financial Assurance Working Group recently held a public meeting to receive comments on potential guidance updates before publishing its final report. Prior to the public meeting, the working...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Death of Limited Partner Disarms Derivative Action

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I’ve yet to see him make a court appearance, and hope I never do, but the Grim Reaper sure has a knack for disrupting business divorce litigation involving LLCs and limited partnerships....more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Evaluating Transfers and Terminations in Increasingly Consolidated Reseller Networks

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Over the past few years, many manufacturing industries have faced a new trend: reseller (i.e., distributor or dealer) consolidation within channel networks. From the manufacturer’s standpoint, there is clear upside to this...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

New Jersey Supreme Court Rules on Insurable Interest and Return of Premiums

On June 4, 2019, in a case captioned Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., the Supreme Court of New Jersey answered two questions certified to it by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third...more

Stinson LLP

United States to Allow U.S. Nationals to Sue Companies Alleged to be Trafficking in Property Confiscated by the Cuban Government

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Twenty-three years after Title III of the Helms-Burton Act was enacted and immediately "shelved" by President Clinton, the United States government is reportedly on the verge of permitting U.S. nationals to sue companies that...more

Dechert LLP

Senate Passes Substantial Changes to CFIUS and Votes to Re-Impose Sanctions on ZTE

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While the rules regarding CFIUS review have remained largely unchanged over the past decade, CFIUS has operated under a new paradigm in recent years. After the U.S. government blocked just two transactions from its inception...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Honesty is the Best Policy: FCC Imposes $1.7 Million Fine for Submitting Misleading Information in Inmate Calling Services Deal

Stressing the importance of receiving truthful and accurate information, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) reached a $1.7 million settlement with inmate calling services provider Securus Technologies, Inc. and...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

FERC Holds Certain Passive Equity Interests in Public Utilities Are “Non-Voting Securities” for Purposes of Section 203 of the...

On October 4, 2017, in a decision with significant implications for the energy project finance community, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the “Commission”) granted a petition for declaratory order filed by...more

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Drafting Contracts under the New Revenue Recognition Standard

The new revenue recognition standards under GAAP (Accounting Standards Update 2014-09; Topic 606) will be applicable to public companies for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2017. While much time and...more

Hogan Lovells

CBP Issues Interim Rules Shifting Key Functions

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Completing a process started several years ago, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has published new interim rules formalizing the transfer and consolidation of key customs functions from the agency's 328 ports of entry...more

Morgan Lewis

FCC Fines Non-Telecom Companies for Lapse in Compliance with Wireless Rules

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FCC Fines Non-Telecom Companies for Lapse in Compliance with Wireless Rules August 19, 2016 The enforcement action highlights the importance of complying with FCC rules with respect to their wireless facilities and devices....more

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