Page 9 - Regulations Implementing News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Day 1 of the Joe Biden presidency: Actions affecting Indian Country Wednesday, January 20, 2021 Indianz.Com After arriving at the White House on Wednesday afternoon, the new president will be revoking a permit for the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline that is opposed across Indian Country. The oil pipeline will not be able to cross tribal treaty and ancestral territory in Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota or South Dakota without the permit. But the anticipated order is just the start, according to the incoming White House. From restoring the boundaries of the Bears Ears National Monument in Ut...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) generally restricts making certain non-emergency calls to cellular phones and landlines, among other things, without the called party’s consent.  However, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has created a number of exemptions on which business have come to rely.  A new FCC Order significantly limits those exemptions. Background The TCPA places different restrictions on making calls without the called-party’s consent, depending on the type of telephone line used. For instanc...

Following the consequential Broadnet Declaratory Ruling, NCLC and PSC each filed petitions seeking reconsideration. The NCLC Petition argued that, among other things, federal contractors are “persons” under the TCPA and that the Broadnet Declaratory Ruling misinterpreted the Supreme Court’s holding in Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez on that point. 4 The PSC Petition took issue with the Broadnet Declaratory Ruling to the extent that it required federal government contractors to meet an agency requirement to invoke TCPA immunity when making calls. Specifically, the PSC Petition asked the ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: “At what point do we simply say . . . this statute is an ill fit for current technology?” – Justice Clarence Thomas Nearly 3 decades before Zack Morris ascended to the fictional governorship of California, he was America’s best known Preppy—the cool kid with politician hair toting the raddest, most cutting edge, must-have gizmo his Dad’s money could buy: a Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. Yes, I mean the “brick” phone. Standing 13 inches tall and weighing nearly 2 lbs., it was a marvel of its time. To say the now comically ov...