---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20191001151918.GA11014@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 15:19:19 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: CWA Calls on Congress to Pass PRO Act to Expand Workers' Rights to Organize September 26, 2019 On Wednesday, the House Committee on Education and Labor passed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, H.R. 2474. The bold proposal that would restore fairness to the economy by protecting workers' rights to stand together and negotiate for better working conditions has now cleared an important hurdle in the legislative process. CWA members successfully mobilized to make sure the bill made it through the committee without being watered down, and will now be pushing for a vote by the full House of Representatives for the strong pro-worker bill. https://cwa-union.org/news/cwa-calls-on-congress-pass-pro-act-expand-workers-rights-organize -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20191001220406.GA12912@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 22:04:06 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Ninth Circuit Ends Prohibition On Political Robocalls by Nathan L. Garroway, Bety Javidzad and Mark A. Silver The Ninth Circuit phrased the question in Victory Processing v. Fox succinctly: "whether Montana Code section 45-8-216(1)(e) - which restricts automated telephone calls promoting a political campaign or any use related to a political campaign - violates the First Amendment." The court answered this question in the affirmative, following the Fourth Circuit's ruling on a similar statute in South Carolina. The court acknowledged that it has upheld numerous robocall laws, but these previous cases focused on whether the robocall regulations were reasonable time, place and manner restrictions. This was the first case challenging the constitutionality of a law that focused on the content of the robocall. http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=848160&email_access=on -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <C6D27229-3B71-4739-9751-52B690CD8F54@roscom.com> Date: 1 Oct 2019 19:11:53 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Ajit Pai wins (and loses) in court as net neutrality repeal is mostly upheld A federal appeals court today upheld the Federal Communications Commission's repeal of net neutrality rules but said the FCC cannot preempt all state net neutrality laws. "We uphold the 2018 Order, with two exceptions," the judges' ruling said. "First, the Court concludes that the Commission has not shown legal authority to issue its Preemption Directive, which would have barred states from imposing any rule or requirement that the Commission 'repealed or decided to refrain from imposing' in the Order or that is 'more stringent' than the Order." The FCC "ignored binding precedent" when making its preemption order, and "that failure is fatal" to the preemption, judges wrote. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/net-neutrality-still-dead-but-judges-rule-that-fcc-cant-preempt-state-laws/ ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Thu, 03 Oct 2019