The aviation legal skies are swarming after an 800,000-plus-person lawsuit crashed into the FAA last week, alleging the federal agency wrongly collected personal data and money under drone regulations later declared illegal. Robert Taylor v. FAA is the second such class action suit filed against the FAA in as many years and has a fraternal connection with the first. In 2015, … [Read more...] about Class-action: FAA May Face $841M Bill in New Drone Suit
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Is FAA Drone Registration Coming Back?
News and Commentary. It's that time of year again: when visions of millions of drones wrapped in holiday paper prompt the U.S. government to discuss drone registration. Last week, Bloomberg News reported that the on-again, off-again, required or optional drone registration program may be restored. The Drone Registration Program Registration was first enacted at the end of … [Read more...] about Is FAA Drone Registration Coming Back?
The Argument Over Drone Registration Continues
The response to John Taylor's FOIA request asking the FAA for records that indicate the recreational drone registration program was ever used to enforce regulations is the latest point of discussion in the argument over the program. By now, everyone in the drone communitiy knows about John Taylor's winning lawsuit against the FAA, which determined that the FAA's drone … [Read more...] about The Argument Over Drone Registration Continues
Judge Tells FAA Rep: “You’re Just Making Stuff Up.”
Oral arguments in the case of Taylor vs. Huerta, a case that challenges the legality of the FAA's drone registration program, began last week - and the FAA did not appear to emerge with victory at hand. The FAA's drone registration program was instituted just before the holidays in 2015. The drone registration program - Part 48 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) - … [Read more...] about Judge Tells FAA Rep: “You’re Just Making Stuff Up.”
