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Is it a Reentry Vehicle if it Doesn’t Return Substantially Intact?

October 2, 2017 Laura Montgomery

Let’s say you plan to bring something in from outer space.  You might wonder whether it needs a reentry license…

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Posted in: uncategorized Filed under: FAA, license, reentry, regulation

Lessons in the Tricky Navigation of Drafting

September 18, 2017 Laura Montgomery 1 Comment

Every now and then it helps when you are working on something to see what happened with other things like…

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Posted in: uncategorized Filed under: CFR, drafting, regulation, USC

This New Ocean II

September 11, 2017 Laura Montgomery

Although not all space lawyers are mesmerized by the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act (the Deep Seabed Mineral Act),…

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Posted in: uncategorized Filed under: Article II, NOAA, property rights, regulation

This New Ocean

April 22, 2017 Laura Montgomery 4 Comments

This isn’t space law, but it feels like space law.  Or, to put it more pedantically, this application to the…

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Posted in: uncategorized Filed under: Article II, law of the sea, NOAA, property rights, regulation

Inflating the Penalties for Commercial Space Transportation

April 14, 2017 Laura Montgomery 1 Comment

To account for inflation, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a final rule that adjusts the fines—“civil penalties” in FAA lingo—that…

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Posted in: uncategorized Filed under: CFR, civil penalties, FAA, fines, regulation

Demonstrating Compliance with a Performance Standard

March 25, 2017 Laura Montgomery

Performance standards are the new* “in” thing in the regulatory world. Everyone wants them. Everyone notes how they offer greater…

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Posted in: uncategorized Filed under: APA, drafting, regulation, rulemaking

A Request to the Regulators

March 17, 2017 Laura Montgomery

How we write things matters.  How we write regulations really matters because regulations can influence design and make people spend…

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The Only Thing Worse than Ambiguity: Clarity.

August 22, 2016 Laura Montgomery 2 Comments

I’ve worked on a lot of regulations, and it seems sometimes that the only thing people hate more than vague…

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