Roughly a year ago, our Firm participated in BWG Global teleconferences (https://bwgglobal.com/) on cross-border payments on June 23 and July 18, 2025. See www.wstelecomlaw.com/2025/07/u-s-sanctions-on-russia-anticipating-the-winds-of-war. Recently, we revisited that discussion at BWG’s most recent cross-border payments teleconference, updating participants on U.S. sanctions policy and the latest initiative: Operation Economic Outcast. Our discussion shows how Western sanctions, indirectly – and perhaps unintentionally – can

     Some recent case law developments suggest that broadband providers in Georgia seeking access to local tower-siting facilities and public rights-of-way may face unanticipated hurdles.      The first is T-Mobile South, LLC v. City of Roswell (rejecting T-Mobile’s multi-year effort to overturn the City of Roswell’s denial of its tower-siting application). See Link. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, whose jurisdiction includes Georgia, has

     The attached alert: “Content Regulation in the Age of Misinformation – Part III: Plaintiffs at the Gates”. Dates will follow soon. The attached alert discusses the recent California jury verdict finding Meta and Google liable for social media addiction. In a future webinar, we will review the decision from legal, legislative and societal perspectives, as well as “how to litigate” assessments from both

      FinCEN’s latest rule extends beneficial ownership reporting to all-cash real estate transactions — another step in what we call “The Hunt for Personal Information."     Our recent Alert  The Hunt for Personal Information  explores the growing tension between privacy protections and anti–money laundering laws, and previews our upcoming webinar, “Privacy in the New World Order.”

     As artificial intelligence (AI) regulation accelerates, an old federalism question is resurfacing: can the federal government preempt state AI laws absent congressional authorization?  The Trump Administration has signaled a deregulatory, hands-off approach to AI, while threatening to preempt state laws inconsistent with this federal policy.  States, meanwhile, continue to move forward with targeted AI legislation.      This alert:  An Inchoate AI Preemption  provides

  Uncertainty appears to be the hallmark of today’s U.S. economy. While Covid is now (hopefully) behind us, rapidly changing Tariffs, supply chain disruptions from the trade war with China, inflation, high interest rates (albeit declining), and a government shutdown with no end in sight, are all making it difficult for early-stage (“Start Up”) companies to secure much-needed financing. The attached alert discusses common mistakes made by

  This alert  BWG-Sanctions-Update-9-17-25-Final summarizes our latest discussion at the continuing BWG Global teleconferences on Cross-Border payments (September 12, 2025). See https://bwgglobal.com/. For our prior discussions on this topic, please see  https://wstelecomlaw.com/2025/07/u-s-sanctions-on-russia-anticipating-the-winds-of-war/. For details about these sanctions and their implications for cross-border financial transfers, please see our “Negotiable Hostilities” alerts/webinars (sponsored by Thomson Reuters West LegalEd Center) at https://wstelecomlaw.com/2023/08/negotiable-hostilities-webinars/.

In a landmark decision, Consumers’ Research t al. v. Federal Communications Commission, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals  had found that the FCC’s assessment and collection of Universal Service Fund (USF) fees constituted an unconstitutional “tax,” thereby calling into question the future of the fund. On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) released its long-awaited decision reversing the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision,

       This alert BWG-Fireside-Chat-Negotiable-Hostilities-Sanctions-Update

This alert (see attached Foreign Investment 5-19-25 PDF) accompanied the presentation delivered by Walt Sapronov of our Firm on May 11, 2025, at the Center for International Legal Studies (CILS) Conference, Vienna, Austria (see attached European Investment 5-8-25 PDF).  The discussion is focused on European investment in U.S. wireless infrastructure in the current U.S. (“Trump 2.0”) Administration.  With the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI),

Part II: The Evolving Legal, Political, and Regulatory Landscape We are pleased to announce that the recording our webinar, “Content Regulation in the Age of Misinformation Part II” is scheduled for April 29, 2025. This webinar continues the discussion in Part I of our series: “Content Regulation in the Age of Misinformation”.  See https://wstelecomlaw.com/2023/06/part-i-of-our-new-online-content-regulation-series-is-now-available As in Part I, the discussion will continue reviewing content regulation of social media

As in prior election years, we have published a special alert on the impact of federal elections on U.S. telecommunications and broadband policies.  Our alert on this impact following the 2024 elections and new Republican control of the White House and Congress is attached at  POLITICAL-ALERT-2024-Elections-12-5-24-Final.pdf