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I'm not in any sense a lawyer. I don't have the time or inclination to read all of title 47.

I wonder how well the FCC will stand up after Chevron. The AM bits I glanced at look really solid, this is a band, this is a channel this is the maximum rate of amplitude change, tidy technical details spelled out by congress.

But like, the PIRATE act is pretty explicit, 100,000 per day 2 mil max. Perhaps there's some other law that allows the FCC to adjust for inflation. but the bill, as I the non-lawyer reads it, doesn't say anything about inflation.

Seems like they could lower the fine a bit, at least.



IANAL either but I doubt Chevron will impact this because it is Legislation. Chevron gives litigants the opportunity to smack back regulations that come through the non-legislative Rule Making process. What we have here is the result of the 2020 PIRATE Act.


I'd think the inflation adjustment is regulation. but perhaps the law exists somewhere.




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