So, the very fact that the FCC disclaims authority might also undermine the FTC's authority as well.
TS Eliot has been mocked for disclaiming any authority as an interpreter of his own work, but the opposite assumption is at least as suspect.
For years after that ruling, despite its victory, the F.C.C. exercised its power with a light hand, disclaiming the authority to punish fleeting words that did not reflect "deliberate and repetitive use in a patently offensive manner," as the commission said in a public notice in 1987.
And even though the President himself disclaimed constitutional authority for such a move as recently as a year ago, U.S. Supreme Court precedents give him broad powers over who to allow into the country and who to kick out.
But, the Court twice disclaimed the authority to define common law crimes not proscribed by Congressional statute.
The Court could hear original habeas petitions, but disclaimed the authority to grant the writ post-conviction unless the sentence had already been completed.
In any event, the FCC itself hasn't disclaimed its legal authority over "edge" companies in either of its net neutrality orders.
On the one hand, the authors disclaim the historicity of (written) chronicles (ftn. 11).
No, during the season, the players voted to authorize the NBPA to disclaim interest.
Henry II severely persecuted Protestants under the Edict of Chateaubriand and when the French authorities complained about the missionary activities, Geneva was able to disclaim responsibility.
Disclaimers can be tricky; you can't, for example, disclaim assets you've already touched.
