Skip to main content

Jonathan P. Garvin

Associate

[email protected]

+1.202.434.7357

Follow:
Share:

Jonathan focuses his practice on a wide range of legal challenges facing technology and communications companies.  He regularly advises industry members on regulatory, legislative, and transactional matters.  Jonathan has experience representing wireless, broadband, media, and cable industry clients in complex regulatory proceedings and investigations before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).  In addition, he counsels companies in a variety of industries, such as telecommunications, health care, and public utilities, on Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and robocalling/texting compliance issues. 

Jonathan is also involved in the firm’s Communications Infrastructure Litigation Practice.  Representing clients before federal and state courts on matters involving both wireless and wireline facilities deployment.  

Jonathan brings FCC experience and insight to his engagements with the firm’s clients. He began his legal career in the FCC Attorney Honors Program as an Attorney-Advisor in the Enforcement Bureau’s Spectrum Enforcement Division, where he investigated and resolved rules violations and complaints.

Jonathan was also detailed to the FCC Office of the Enforcement Bureau Chief, where as Acting Legal Advisor, he provided legal and procedural advice to Bureau management, guided Enforcement Bureau actions through FCC processes, and served as a liaison to the offices of the Chairman and Commissioners.

During law school, Jonathan served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Stephanie M. Rose of the Southern District of Iowa. In addition, he was a law clerk on the United States Senate’s Committee on the Judiciary and worked as a student attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.

Jonathan has been active in the firm’s pro bono practice representing juveniles in immigration matters.

viewpoints

Read about the FCC’s cease-and-desist letter against repeat robocaller OneEye LLC, a bill reintroduced in the House of Representatives that would increase robocalling penalties, and Twilio’s action to stop mortgage scam robocallers.

Read more

In this month’s Telephone and Texting Compliance News, we cover the FCC’s first report on STIR/SHAKEN Caller ID authentication framework technologies, its ruling clarifying robocalling consent rules and upholding call limits, and FCC Enforcement Bureau actions against companies involved in mortgage scam robocalling, plus a Third Circuit decision upholding summary judgment in favor of the defendant in a TCPA case involving a one-page fax about a free educational seminar.

Read more

Read about the FCC’s first report on STIR/SHAKEN Caller ID authentication framework technologies, its ruling clarifying robocalling consent rules and upholding call limits, and FCC Enforcement Bureau actions against companies involved in mortgage scam robocalling.

Read more

In this month’s Telephone and Texting Compliance News, we cover new FCC deadlines for gateway provider obligations and enforcement actions, including removing a non-compliant provider from the robocall mitigation database, ordering providers to block a student loan scam calling campaign, and proposed fines against companies that failed to comply with the reassigned numbers database. We also review Eleventh Circuit decisions halting a TCPA appeal on the basis of standing and rejecting a professional plaintiff’s TCPA claim, plus a Ninth Circuit decision remanding a TCPA case about insurance coverage.

Read more

Read about new FCC deadlines for gateway provider obligations and recent enforcement actions against illegal robocalling. These actions include removing a non-compliant provider from the robocall mitigation database, ordering providers to block a student loan scam calling campaign, and proposing fines for failure to comply with the reassigned numbers database.

Read more

Our Telephone Calling and Texting Compliance Developments newsletter covers an FCC Notice U.S.-based voice service providers of enforcement action if they continue to accept or facilitate traffic from Urth Access, LLC, the agency’s Notice of Inquiry seeking information on the non-IP technology in the nation’s phone networks, and a Ninth Circuit decision eliminating potential ambiguity concerning the definition of an automatic telephone dialing system in the TCPA.

Read more

The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau issued a so-called K4 Notice informing all U.S.-based voice service providers that continuing to accept or facilitate traffic from Urth Access, LLC may result in enforcement action being taken against them. The agency also adopted a Notice of Inquiry seeking information on the non-IP technology in the nation’s phone networks.

Read more

Our TCPA newsletter covers the FCC’s proposal to require mobile providers to block illegal text messages and apply caller ID authentication technology to text messages, Orders to start the process of removing seven voice service providers from the Robocall Mitigation Database, and a pending Fourth Circuit appeal of a federal court’s certification of a class in a TCPA case without consideration of the defendant’s Established Business Relationships with the named plaintiffs.

Read more
Read less

Involvement

  • Member, Federal Communications Bar Association
Read less