2257 Found Overbroad!?!?

[RawAlex]

Mikesouth, I think that the feds, unless they find something to work from, would be loath to push on this one too hard. If they start pushing, they would likely have to push all the way to the supreme court, and that may not be desirable. There is a very high potential that the surpreme court could side with the lower court and not only leave the feds without any 2257 provisions whatsoever, but also a judgement that would make it difficult to even construct an alternative that would apply to the original producer only.

I think what is more likely at this point is that the inspection process will grind to a halt while the lawyers look it all over, followed by a "parking" of the law for the moment. At some point in the future, the lawmakers could sit down and entirely re-write the statued to have a specifically more narrow focus in regards to original producers, mostly common sense guidelines that should be there anyway.

I think this will go down as an important moment in the adult world's fight against the conservative shitheads who has tried to use onerous government paperwork creation to stop the protected free speech they hate.