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Jonathan P. Garvin

Associate

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+1.202.434.7357

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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.

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Read about the Robocall Trace Back Enhancement Act, pending Senate legislation aimed at providing immunity for receiving, sharing, or publishing information about illegal calls.
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Our TCPA newsletter covers an FCC Order adopting changes to its immediate call-blocking notification rules and the Robocall Trace Back Enhancement Act — pending Senate legislation aimed at providing immunity for sharing information about illegal calls. It also covers two Southern District of California decisions dismissing ATDS claims.
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Read about an FCC Order adopting changes to its immediate call-blocking notification rules and clarifying that the notification requirement applies to analytics-based blocking only.
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TCPA Regulatory Update – Blocking Foreign-Initiated Robocalls, Safeguarding PSAP Phone Numbers, and Blocking Spam Texts
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We are pleased to present our latest Monthly TCPA Digest, providing insights and news related to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). In this issue’s Regulatory Update, we discuss the FCC’s adoption of the FNPRM, a rule intended to help curb illegal robocalls originating outside of the United States, as well as the PSAP FNPRM, which seeks to protect the nation’s 911 emergency response centers from potentially debilitating robocalling attacks. In addition, we cover Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s recent request that the FCC take additional steps to block spam text messages and his support for its proposal to shorten STIR/SHAKEN implementation deadlines for certain providers.
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Our TCPA newsletter discusses proposed rulemaking items on the FCC’s September Open Meeting agenda involving the Do-Not-Call registry for 911 call centers and gateway providers for foreign-originated calls to the United States, and covers the 6th Circuit’s Lindenbaum v. Realgy decision rejecting the Creasy v. Charter Communications federal court ruling.
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Read about two proposed rulemaking items on the FCC’s September Open Meeting agenda involving the Do-Not-Call registry for 911 call centers and gateway providers, or the first U.S.–based provider in the call path of a foreign-originated call.
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America’s largest voice service providers are now using STIR/SHAKEN caller ID authentication standards on their Internet Protocol (“IP”) networks.
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News & Press

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A team of Mintz attorneys won a motion for summary judgment for client Horizon Tower in its case against Park County, Wyoming. 

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Involvement

  • Member, Federal Communications Bar Association
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