United States Eleventh Circuit

Section 253(a) of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 contains the only substantive limitations on state and local government regulation of telecommunications, and subsections (b) and (c) are "safe harbors" functioning as affirmative defenses to preemption of state or local authority that would otherwise violate (a).

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/25/2001
• Published 05/25/2001

Judges

• BIRCH, Circuit Judge:, Before BIRCH and BLACK, Circuit Judges, and NESBITT , District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William R. Malone,Joseph Van Eaton, Miller & Van Eaton, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC, for Town of Palm Beach and City of Coral Gables., John C. Randolph, Jones, Foster, Johnston & Stubbs, West Palm Beach, FL, for Town of Palm Beach., Kerry L. Ezrol, Josias, Goren, Cherof, Doody & Ezrol, P.A., Ft. Lauderdale, FL, for City of Coral Gables., John R. Hargrove, Heinrich, Gordon, Hargrove, Weihe & James, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, FL, Dorian S. Denburg, BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc., Atlanta, GA, for BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc., John R. Beranek, Ausley & McMullen, Tallahassee, FL, for Sprint Communications Co., Rodney E. Gaddy, Florida Power Corp., Saint Petersburg, FL, for Florida Power Corp., Peter J. Hopkins, Spiegel & McDiarmid, Washington, DC, for Broward Cty.