Interested in learning about drone lawsuits? I have compiled the various drone lawsuits/litigation/prosecutions into the list below. There has been a wide range of drone-related cases in the last couple of years ranging from flamethrowers mounted on drones to a drone crashing into a wedding guest. I’m going to refer them collectively as drone lawsuits.… Read More »
Brief Summary of the Lawsuit: April 2018, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) sued: Federal Aviation Aministration Drone Advisory Committee RTCA Department of Transportation in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia with counts alleging: Violation of the FACA: Failure to Open Meetings to the Public Violation of the APA: Agency Action… Read More »
Quick Summary: This is NOT John Taylor who was instrumental in having the drone registration regulations vacated in the Taylor v. Huerta case. This is Robert Taylor who is John Taylor’s brother. Just to mention, I’m NOT involved in this case. This is a class action lawsuit (of at least 836,796 members) against the FAA.… Read More »
Previous Regulation—Back to Drone Regulations Directory—Next Regulation Section 107.23 Hazardous operation. No person may: (a) Operate a small unmanned aircraft system in a careless or reckless manner so as to endanger the life or property of another; or (b) Allow an object to be dropped from a small unmanned aircraft in a manner that creates… Read More »
Section 107.9 requires certain accidents to be reported to the FAA within a certain time period. This regulation has also caused a lot of confusion and headaches for people who crashed their drone and were frantically trying to determine if they have to report or not. Section 107.9 says, “No later than 10 calendar days… Read More »
Update: The City of Newton appealed it to the circuit court but later asked for the case to be dismissed which the court granted. The City of Newton, Massachusetts passed a drone ordinance on December 19, 2016. The ordinance requires all drones to be registered, bans drones below 400ft above ground level without property owner… Read More »
Quick Summary of Reichert v. FAA: The FAA created a set of registration regulations, contrary to law, which resulted in a lawsuit from John Taylor. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the law as being illegal. Now the FAA is getting sued in a class action lawsuit. The complaint is asking the court… Read More »
IMPORTANT NOTE: On December 12, 2017, the National Defense Authorization Act of 2017 was passed saying, “(d) Restoration Of Rules For Registration And Marking Of Unmanned Aircraft.—The rules adopted by the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration in the matter of registration and marking requirements for small unmanned aircraft (FAA-2015-7396; published on December 16, 2015) that… Read More »