Office Address: 14356 Cape May Road
Silver Spring, MD 20904-6011
(main office)

Home Address: 2140 Edgeware Street
Silver Spring, MD 20905

Telephones: Office (301) 384-5525
Facsimile (301) 384-6384
Home (301) 236-5629

Experience:

Partner, Booth, Freret and Imlay, Washington, D.C., December, 1981 to 1995. President, Booth, Freret, Imlay & Tepper, P.C., 1995 to present. Practice limited to Federal Communications Law, including Broadcast, Amateur, Private Wireless, Microwave and Common Carrier regulation; Administrative Law and Administrative Hearing Litigation; Federal Court Trial and Appellate Litigation related to Federal Communications Law matters; representation of licensees and associations of communications users, especially technical and electronic communications associations; electronic equipment manufacturers, and land use regulation of communications facilities.

Associate, Booth and Freret, Washington, D.C., September, 1979 to December, 1981. Practice same as above.

Associate, Raysor, Barbour and Morella, Chevy Chase, Maryland; Law Clerk, 1975-1978; Associate, May, 1978 to September, 1979. Practiced Civil Litigation; College and University and Hospital Law; Wills, Trusts and Estates.

Narrative:

Christopher D. Imlay has practiced Federal Communications Law for the bulk of his professional career to date. His communications clients include the American Radio Relay League, Incorporated, the national association of more than 160,000 amateur radio operators in the United States; the Society of Broadcast Engineers, the national association of broadcast and communications technical professionals; Kenwood USA Corporation, Communications Division; the National Football League; Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company; Robert Bosch, GmbH; Broadcast Sports, Inc.; numerous television and radio broadcast, common carrier, and private wireless licensees of the FCC; video production companies and manufacturers of communications and electronic equipment. His work for the amateur and broadcast engineering associations include preparation of materials in FCC rule making and adjudicatory proceedings, consultation with local chapters and members, extensive representation of communications users, and consulting with local counsel for those users, in connection with Federal, state and local regulation of Federally-licensed communications facilities. Imlay has taught CLE seminars in Portland, Oregon; Atlanta, Georgia; Kansas City, Missouri; San Francisco, California, Los Angeles, California, Boxboro, Massachusetts, and Miami, Florida on the subject of state and local regulation of Federally-licensed communications facilities, for both radio licensees and state and local government professionals. He has taught and participated in seminars at engineering and other conventions and conferences on technical regulatory topics of concern to broadcasters, broadcast engineers and wireless telecommunications licensees. He has testified as an expert witness before United States Bankruptcy Courts, State Courts, and numerous administrative authorities on the subject of Federal Telecommunications Regulation. His expertise is especially in the area of radio spectrum allocations and regulation, and in land use regulation of communications facilities.

Booth, Freret, Imlay & Tepper, P.C. is also retained by communications tower owners, cellular telephone companies, cable systems, colleges and universities, and private cable facilities for advice on telecommunications and land use regulation.

Publications:

Imlay has authored numerous articles on telecommunications engineering topics and association law matters for the Signal, the publication of the Society of Broadcast Engineers, and on communications regulation for QST, the monthly journal of the American Radio Relay League, Incorporated.

Personal Data:

Imlay was born February 15, 1953 in Washington, D.C. and has lived in central Maryland all his life. He is married, with two children, ages 19 and 23, and resides in Cloverly, Maryland. He has been an active amateur radio operator and experimenter since 1976, and is the licensee of amateur radio station W3KD, holding an Extra Class amateur radio operator's license. He is an SBE-certified Broadcast Technologist, and was made a Fellow of the Society of Broadcast Engineers in 1997. He plays the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipes in solo competition and with the Prince George’s County (MD) Police Pipe Band. He is an active outdoorsman.