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Jonathan P. Garvin

Associate

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+1.202.434.7357

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Jonathan advises technology and communications industry companies on a wide range of regulatory, compliance, and transactional matters, including spectrum use, accessibility and consumer protection, and privacy and cybersecurity policy.  He represents clients in complex regulatory proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and other federal and state regulatory bodies, such as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). Jonathan has particular expertise in Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), TRACED Act, and robocalling/texting compliance issues across many industries such as telecommunications, health care, public utilities and financial services.

Jonathan also has robust experience in the firm’s Communications Infrastructure Litigation Practice.  He has represented clients before federal and state courts on matters involving both wireless and wireline facilities deployment.  Jonathan has been successful in securing victories for a number of wireless carriers and tower companies in lawsuits challenging local government denials of permits under Section 332 and 253 of the Communications Act and Section 6409 of the Middle Class Taxpayer Relief and Jobs Creation Act of 2012 (“collocation by right”). 

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 also served as an Acting Legal Advisor to the FCC’s Office of the Enforcement Bureau Chief, where 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 was a judicial extern for the Honorable Stephanie M. Rose of the Southern District of Iowa.  He was also 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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TCPA Regulatory Update — Dates Set for Compliance with TRACED Act

April 16, 2021 | Article | By Russell Fox, Jonathan P. Garvin

Read about an FCC order requiring compliance with Section 10 of the TRACED Act by May 6, 2021 and the January 1, 2022 deadline for voice service providers to implement systems to notify callers immediately when calls are blocked.
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The FCC issued a record $225 million fine against a pair of robocallers and its Enforcement Bureau issued cease-and-desist letters to eight voice providers.
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TCPA Regulatory Update — Lawmakers Respond to SCOTUS Facebook Auto-Dialer Ruling

April 16, 2021 | Article | By Russell Fox, Jonathan P. Garvin

Read about a joint statement issued by Congressional lawmakers about their plans to introduce legislation to counter the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Facebook v. Duguid, which held that under the TCPA, an automatic telephone dialing system must be able to perform random or sequential number generation.
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Monthly TCPA Digest — March 2021

March 16, 2021 | Article | By Russell Fox, Jonathan P. Garvin

Our March issue covers calls for the FCC to fix a recent Report and Order that would require prior express written consent rather than merely prior express consent for informational prerecorded or artificial voice calls to a residential number. In addition, we cover a Senate bill that would increase fines for “spoofing,” the practice of masking caller ID information.
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TCPA Legislative Update — Bipartisan Senate Bill Would Increase Fines for Spoofing

March 16, 2021 | Article | By Russell Fox, Jonathan P. Garvin

The Anti-Spoofing Penalties Modernization Act of 2021, S. 594, has been referred to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, of which two of the bill’s co-sponsors, Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), are members.
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TCPA Regulatory Update — Industry Calls on FCC to Fix TCPA Consent Rule

March 16, 2021 | Article | By Russell Fox, Jonathan P. Garvin

USTelecom, one of the largest telecommunications industry groups, has publicly joined the American Bankers Association (“ABA”) in asking the Commission to issue an erratum correcting its December 2020 Report and Order implementing Section 8 of the TRACED Act.
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TCPA Regulatory Update — Compliance Dates Established for Reassigned Numbers Database Reporting Requirements
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TCPA Regulatory Update — Industry Shows Support for FCC Hospital Robocall Blocking Recommendations
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Monthly TCPA Digest — February 2021

February 17, 2021 | Article | By Russell Fox, Joshua Briones, Jonathan P. Garvin, Matthew Novian

The February TCPA Digest discusses industry input on facilitating adoption of best practices for combatting illegal robocalls in hospitals, a compliance date for voice service providers regarding the Reassigned Numbers Database, and efforts by attorneys general to reverse a ruling that TCPA violations occurring between 2015 and July 2020 are unenforceable because the TCPA law was then unconstitutional.
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Monthly TCPA Digest — January 2021

January 25, 2021 | Article | By Russell Fox, Joshua Briones, Jonathan P. Garvin

Our January TCPA Digest covers the FCC’s implementation of several steps to combat illegal robocalls and comply with TRACED Act deadlines as well as a circuit split that has developed since Creasy, in which the court ruled it lacked authority to enforce the TCPA.
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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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  • Member, Federal Communications Bar Association
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