Talk:American Radio Relay League, Inc. v. FCC (1980)

Poorly written
This article needs some work, whoever wrote it appears to be confusing amateur radio and CB radio (two completely different services). -bleak_fire_ (talk) 05:14, 23 June 2014 (UTC)


 * I believe the issue you've presented is evidently clear; in the first paragraph, three reference links are applied to the end of the date (at the end of the sentence):

1. http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/617/875/41173/ 2. http://www.leagle.com/decision/2008751524F3d227_1727 3. http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=12380905032588396714&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr
 * The first link references the 1980 case, whereas the second and third links are entirely about the 2008 case. From this alone, we can assume the article was written with mixed sources, and therefore has multiple problems/inconsistencies in its text. I'm not sure if I'm just incredibly tired (at 11:46pm locally) or if this article is written incorrectly, but I don't see anything even remotely related to Broadband over Power Line systems (BPL), which is what the 2008 case was entirely about. The 1980 case, dealing with the massive influx of CB operations and the unregulated nature of both CB as a service and the mentioned operators, is the only case case I can see mentioned/referenced in this text. Perhaps it is just a very shallow article discussing the 1980 case, and needs to have the irrelevant references removed as well as have the content of the article expanded with the valid, relevant references? Then a new page could be made for the 2008 case, dealing with BPL rather than CB. k2trf (talk) 04:51, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

These are two different completely unrelated court cases!
This article seems to be a hacked-together combination of a 1980 case and a 2008 case which have nothing to do with each other. The 1980 one dealt with CB radio and the 2008 one dealt with BPL. The author also seems to have trouble understanding the difference between CB and ham radio. The statistics on CB radio usage is probably taken from an uncited 1983 NY Times article. We need to delete this article, and create two new ones. -bleak_fire_ (talk) 22:21, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Article moved & errors corrected
The article you are looking at now is "American Radio Relay League, Inc. v. FCC (1980)". It is linked from a disambiguation page "American Radio Relay League, Inc. v. FCC". More info can be found on Talk:American_Radio_Relay_League,_Inc._v._FCC