In a groundbreaking case concerning the commercial use of drones, Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel’s Brendan Schulman fought off the Federal Aviation Administration’s first attempt to fine a drone pilot.
Schulman, head of Kramer Levin’s unmanned aircraft systems practice group, won a ruling on Thursday that knocked out a $10,000 fine the FAA had imposed on Raphael Pirker, a drone pilot who remotely flew a 56-inch foam glider to shoot aerial footage of the University of Virginia campus and hospital for an ad agency.
