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Andrew Gallagher Haley (November 19, 1904 – September 11, 1966) was an American lawyer. He devoted much of his legal career to federal administrative law, principally communications law. Haley has been described as the world's first practitioner of space law. He coined the term Metalaw, which refers to a field of legal thought now closely related to the scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
Haley was born in Tacoma, Washington, the sixth of nine children. A neighboring retired professor of astronomy aroused Haley’s interest in the moon, stars, and planets, and he wrote fictional accounts of outer space which amused his teachers and friends. As a teenager, he was employed by the Tacoma News Tribune in a variety of capacities, which sharpened his writing skills. Through his newspaper experience, Haley was introduced to several congressmen and senators who would influence his career path.
In 1923 Haley entered college at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. While a student he worked with Senator Clarence Dill of Washington in the preparation of the Radio Act of 1927 (and later assisted the senator with the Communications Act of 1934). After five years of parallel undergraduate and law studies, Haley earned his law degree in 1928. He returned to Tacoma, serving as staff assistant to the General Manager of Pacific Telephone & Telegraph in 1929, and as a secretary to Washington State First District Congressman Ralph Horr (Rep.) in 1931-32. Haley returned to Washington, DC, in 1932 to serve as administrative assistant to Washington State Sixth District Congressman Wesley Lloyd (Dem.). The following year, he was appointed to an attorney position in the Federal Radio Commission. He transitioned to the Law Department of the Federal Communications Commission after its formation in 1934. There he was remembered as the nemesis of broadcasters who touted illegal products on the air such as goat gland implants, cancer cures, and birth control drugs. In 1934 he also earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from George Washington University.
In 1940, Haley and FCC Assistant General Counsel George B. Porter left the Commission to form a private law partnership representing broadcasters in matters before the FCC. They dissolved the partnership in 1944, and Haley continued to practice on his own.
In 1948 the firm of Haley, McKenna and Wilkinson was formed, with broadcast lawyers James A. McKenna, Jr., and Vernon L. Wilkinson. Among the non-broadcast, federal administrative law cases the firm prosecuted throughout the decade of the 40s was an application for a license from the Federal Power Commission to build a dam, reservoir, and hydro-electric power plant on the Cedar River near Moscow, Iowa. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court and back, before agency approval was sustained in 1950 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
In 1954, Haley’s nephew, Michael Haley Bader, joined the firm as an associate attorney. A law graduate of George Washington University, Bader had clerked for his uncle while a student. Bader became a name partner in 1959, with Haley and communications lawyer Roger Wollenberg forming Haley, Wollenberg and Bader. Wollenberg departed in 1962, and associate attorney William J. Potts, Jr., was elevated to name partner status. The firm became Haley, Bader and Potts, and remained so beyond Haley’s death in September 1966, until its partners joined the Washington office of Seattle-based Garvey, Schubert & Barer in 2000.
Having represented broadcasters through the decade of the 40s, Haley became one himself. In June 1947, the FCC granted him a construction permit to build a new Class A FM station at Pasadena, California, to operate on 98.3 megaHertz (megacycles, at the time), with 420 watts effective radiated power. The station was issued the call sign KAGH, an obvious allusion to Haley’s initials.
KAGH went on the air June 15, 1947. It scheduled a "formal opening" on August 20, at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, anticipating an expected attendance of more than 3,000 persons, with movies, speeches by government officials, Hollywood entertainers, and a dance following the show. A full-page advertisement in Broadcasting-Telecasting Magazine titled "Editorial: KAGH's Report to the Industry on FM in Los Angeles County", reported that every seat in the venue was taken, "and hundreds listened in the Gold Room and other hundreds were turned away."
Andrew G. Haley
Andrew Gallagher Haley (November 19, 1904 – September 11, 1966) was an American lawyer. He devoted much of his legal career to federal administrative law, principally communications law. Haley has been described as the world's first practitioner of space law. He coined the term Metalaw, which refers to a field of legal thought now closely related to the scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
Haley was born in Tacoma, Washington, the sixth of nine children. A neighboring retired professor of astronomy aroused Haley’s interest in the moon, stars, and planets, and he wrote fictional accounts of outer space which amused his teachers and friends. As a teenager, he was employed by the Tacoma News Tribune in a variety of capacities, which sharpened his writing skills. Through his newspaper experience, Haley was introduced to several congressmen and senators who would influence his career path.
In 1923 Haley entered college at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. While a student he worked with Senator Clarence Dill of Washington in the preparation of the Radio Act of 1927 (and later assisted the senator with the Communications Act of 1934). After five years of parallel undergraduate and law studies, Haley earned his law degree in 1928. He returned to Tacoma, serving as staff assistant to the General Manager of Pacific Telephone & Telegraph in 1929, and as a secretary to Washington State First District Congressman Ralph Horr (Rep.) in 1931-32. Haley returned to Washington, DC, in 1932 to serve as administrative assistant to Washington State Sixth District Congressman Wesley Lloyd (Dem.). The following year, he was appointed to an attorney position in the Federal Radio Commission. He transitioned to the Law Department of the Federal Communications Commission after its formation in 1934. There he was remembered as the nemesis of broadcasters who touted illegal products on the air such as goat gland implants, cancer cures, and birth control drugs. In 1934 he also earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from George Washington University.
In 1940, Haley and FCC Assistant General Counsel George B. Porter left the Commission to form a private law partnership representing broadcasters in matters before the FCC. They dissolved the partnership in 1944, and Haley continued to practice on his own.
In 1948 the firm of Haley, McKenna and Wilkinson was formed, with broadcast lawyers James A. McKenna, Jr., and Vernon L. Wilkinson. Among the non-broadcast, federal administrative law cases the firm prosecuted throughout the decade of the 40s was an application for a license from the Federal Power Commission to build a dam, reservoir, and hydro-electric power plant on the Cedar River near Moscow, Iowa. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court and back, before agency approval was sustained in 1950 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
In 1954, Haley’s nephew, Michael Haley Bader, joined the firm as an associate attorney. A law graduate of George Washington University, Bader had clerked for his uncle while a student. Bader became a name partner in 1959, with Haley and communications lawyer Roger Wollenberg forming Haley, Wollenberg and Bader. Wollenberg departed in 1962, and associate attorney William J. Potts, Jr., was elevated to name partner status. The firm became Haley, Bader and Potts, and remained so beyond Haley’s death in September 1966, until its partners joined the Washington office of Seattle-based Garvey, Schubert & Barer in 2000.
Having represented broadcasters through the decade of the 40s, Haley became one himself. In June 1947, the FCC granted him a construction permit to build a new Class A FM station at Pasadena, California, to operate on 98.3 megaHertz (megacycles, at the time), with 420 watts effective radiated power. The station was issued the call sign KAGH, an obvious allusion to Haley’s initials.
KAGH went on the air June 15, 1947. It scheduled a "formal opening" on August 20, at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, anticipating an expected attendance of more than 3,000 persons, with movies, speeches by government officials, Hollywood entertainers, and a dance following the show. A full-page advertisement in Broadcasting-Telecasting Magazine titled "Editorial: KAGH's Report to the Industry on FM in Los Angeles County", reported that every seat in the venue was taken, "and hundreds listened in the Gold Room and other hundreds were turned away."