[BC] Interesting IBUZ article & WTWP

[Phil Alexander]

On 18 Mar 2007 at 20:56, r j carpenter wrote:

> "Phil Alexander" <dynotherm at earthlink.net> said:
> 
> > With all the lawyers on the FCC staff these days you would think they
> > could enforce the unintentional radiator standards in Part 15. But, 
> > alas, they have lawyers, not litigators, or so it would seem. IMHO
> > the FCC > is not prepared to fight tough battles with the utilities
> > who do have the funding to litigate enforcement of Part 15.
> 
> I thought that the FCC had to rely on the Dept of Justice to represent 
> them in court.  The DoJ probably has bigger fish to fry.

When it finally gets to the Federal Court system I believe you are 
correct, but there is all the time spent on hearings within the
Commish before that happens. Both the EB lawyers and the ALJ's 
would be overloaded very quickly if they started enforcing Part 15
with the utilities IMHO, because I doubt the utilities would be
quite so passive as most broadcasters. Secondly, consider the rate
politics.


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