AT & T Case Summary

The Court ruled in favor of the appellant, and the decision is described as follows:

The interpretation of “privacy” under the PCC Code was considered in R (Ford) v Press Complaints Commission . The applicant was the well known television journalist, Anna Ford. She looked for authorization to apply for judicial review of the PCC choice dismissing her protest about distribution of photos of her and her accomplice on a disengaged yet open shoreline abroad. Silber J refused permission on the basis of the “broad discretion” given to media regulators and the “extended deference given by the courts” to their

Target Corporation uses an interesting capital-budgeting system. Projects are proposed using Capital Project Requests (CPRs) and must be approved before money can be spent. The level of approval needed depends on the amount being requested. For projects requiring less than $100K, lower management can approve, but anything above this amount goes to the Capital Expenditure Committee (CEC) which is comprised of 5 executive officers. For projects requiring greater than $50 million, the Board of Directors must approve.

District Court was the original court of jurisdiction with district judge Weber. Junger filed his action to make a facial challenge to the Regulations on First Amendment grounds, "seeking declaratory and injunctive relief that would permit him to engage in the unrestricted distribution of encryption software through his web site." Junger claimed that encryption source code is to be protected speech under the First Amendment. The district court ruled in favor of the defendants, "holding that encryption source code is not protected under the First Amendment, that the Regulations are permissible content-neutral regulations, and that the Regulations are not subject to facial challenge on the prior restraint grounds." The decision was later reversed by the Supreme Court judge Martin and remanded stating: "The government “must demonstrate that the recited harms are real, not merely conjectural, and that the regulation will in fact alleviate these harms in a direct and material way.” Id. We recognize that national security interests can outweigh the interests of protected speech and require the regulation of speech. In the present case, the record does not resolve whether the exercise of presidential power in furtherance of national security interests should overrule the interests in allowing the free exchange of encryption source

In the Northern Georgia District Court Ellis attempted to sue Cartoon Network on the grounds that they violated the Video Privacy Protection Act. However, the case was dismissed for multiple reasons. Ellis then appealed the decision and the case was pushed up to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. In the circuit court, the

This paper will discuss the decision of the FISA Court (FISC) regarding the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) July 18, 2013 Application for Certain Tangible Things for Investigations to Protect Against International Terrorism. This application is for an order pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) Title 50, United States Code 1861. This is also known as Section 215 of the USA Patriots Act which requires the ongoing daily production of the National Security Agency (NSA) of certain call detail records or “telephony meta-data” in bulk.

The government argued that the warrantless ex parte seizure of 27,000 private e-mails was not a violation of the Fourth Amendments prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures. The government argued that the e-mails gathered from Warshak did, in fact, violate the fourth Amendment but the government relied on good faith on the Stored Communications Act (“SCA”) (Craig, 2013). The Stored Communications Act permits a government entity to compel a service provider

My recommendation is that NBCUniversal further develop their Symphony marketing strategy to reduce the risk factors, make it more effective, and more profitable, especially in regards to it selling cross-promotional advertisement space and time. Essentially a combination of all three of my strategic growth opportunities would be most beneficial.

In the United States Supreme Court case Verizon Communications Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, Verizon Communications argued that it was wrong and unreasonable for the Federal Communications Commission to regulate and set leasing rates for networks. Ultimately, the January 14th decision held that the Federal Communications Commission can indeed set rates charged by the service provider for leased elements that are completely unbound from the provider's investment. Also the Federal Communications Commission can also require service provider's to combine certain elements of their networks at the request of the customer or user. However, in regards to network neutrality, the Federal Communications Commission does not have the

Together they wrote “The Right to Privacy” which was published in the Harvard Law Review, and remains to be one of the most famous law articles in history. The Right to Privacy law review

During a conversation with the client, the ATS discovered that the client is in the dark for long periods of time during the winter months. This is due to her PCA scheduling and the winter solstice. The client had one lamp in her room and she is not able to access this lamp since it too far from her bed. The ATS asked if placing the lamp closer to her bedside would help. The client stated if she were to pace a night stand next to the bed it would interfere with her being able to get in and out of the bed. She also stated there are not many outlets within her apartment and if she could have a lamp near to her, she would not have a way of plugging it in. The client's bedroom has one lamp which is far from the client reach. The ATS and

On December 14th, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote to replace current rules enforcing net neutrality. Nothing short of an extinction-level event will prevent it. But before we’re resigned to fate, know that while the battle for net neutrality at the FCC may have been lost, the war isn’t even close to being over which sounds kinda scary. Really, the net neutrality fight is simply migrating to a different theater, namely, The US Courts of Appeals. And excluding the possibility of a Supreme Court challenge, the outcome could very well drag on for another year and a half or more.

The New York Times' article called "Making Sense of AT&T's Bid for Time Warner" describes a potential chance of merging two media giants – Time Warner, and AT&T. Time Warner is a massive media corporation, owner of CNN, HBO, Warner Bros studio and other assets. AT&T is currently the second-largest wireless carrier. Moreover, the recent purchase of DirectTV made AT&T also a major actor in the pay - TV business. The 85 billion dollar deal is expected to redesign the media and telecommunication world.

Q1. What are the built-in tensions with a public private equity firm? How does Blackstone 's structure attempt to reconcile them?

AT&T is a mobile service provider that has been advertising to consumers about their unlimited data plans. However, their claims of unlimited data service have been a false representation of what the data policy actually is. The company does what is called throttling, where they reduce the data speed of their customer once they have used a certain amount. Instead of responding to this crisis with an apology to its customers, AT&T stated they didn’t do anything wrong and justified their actions by saying other companies are doing it as well. These actions are deceiving consumers and affecting the service provider they choose to use, as well as, taking advantage of the money their paying for the service their actually receiving. The Federal