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January Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters: Issues/Programs Lists; Digital LPTV Deadline; Audio Description Expansion; Children’s Programming, Webcasting Royalties; NCE FM Settlement Window; and More

Broadcast Law Blog

However, as always, stay in touch with your station’s lawyers and other regulatory advisors for the dates applicable to your operations. Thanks for your readership throughout the year and be on the lookout for our 2022 Broadcasters’ Calendar that will be published on the blog in early 2022. See the Federal Register notice, here.

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Court declines to hear death-row inmate’s claim of juror’s racial bias, prompting dissent from liberal justices

SCOTUSBlog

Instead, Sotomayor explained, the state court ruled that even if the trial judge was wrong to allow Niesman to be seated on the jury, Love could not show that he was harmed by that mistake because the judge had given his lawyer two extra peremptory challenges – which he had already used by the time Niesman was called.

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