our second expert speaker this afternoon is john elwood who is a partner at the firm vincent and el cins here in washington d.c. john's specialty is appellate litigation and the review of administrative action. after graduating from the yale law school, he had several judicial clerkships including one with justice anthony kennedy. after his clerkships, he moved to the justice department's criminal division where he tried cases in the district court and argued in the courts of appeal. from 2002 to 2005, he served in the solicitor general's office, and from 2005 to 2009 he served in the office of legal counsel at the justice department. his article in the cato supreme court review is about the case fcc v. fox television station so, please, welcome john elwood. [applause] >> fcc v. fox, i think, is important for three reasons. first, i think it's important in its own right in that it wound up in having orders against various broadcasters vacated, although i think in some ways that is the least important part of it, because it was a pretty narrow decision. it's important, secondly, because o