> Tangential, but are fines from FCC, SEC, etc a violation of the “innocent until proven guilty” principle? I believe that you can take these kinds of things t

> Tangential, but are fines from FCC, SEC, etc a violation of the “innocent until proven guilty” principle? I believe that you can take these kinds of things to trial in federal court, if you so wish (I'm pretty sure companies take stuff from the SEC to court all the time). However, for the FCC to actually smack you down, you generally have done something egregiously stupid and they explicitly told you to stop and you ignored them and they have you dead to rights. So, you can take it to court. Your probability of winning is just realy, really, really low.