47 U.S.C. § 333
Section 333 · Willful or malicious interference
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case 455 Pa. Super. 639 - Fetterman v. Green (1997)
Most recently applied in Johnson v. American Towers, LLC (March 2015)
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Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
No person shall willfully or maliciously interfere with or cause interference to any radio communications of any station licensed or authorized by or under this chapter or operated by the United States Government.