United States Ninth Circuit
METROPCS, INC. v. CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO, 03-16759
Defendant-City's grant of plaintiff's application to construct a wireless telecommunications antenna is reversed where the decision unreasonably discriminated among providers of functionally equivalent services within the meaning of the Telecommunications Act.
Appellate Information
- Argued 10/04/2004
- Decided 03/07/2005
- Published 03/07/2005
Judges
- Before: CUDAHY,GRABER and FISHER, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- James A. Heard, Mackenzie & Albritton LLP, San Francisco, CA; Steven E. Grill, Devine, Millimet & Branch, P.A., Manchester, NH; Scott J. Grossberg and Javan N. Rad, Cihigoyenetche, Grossberg & Clouse, Rancho Cucamonga, CA; Paul J. Lawrence, Preston Gates & Ellis LLP, Seattle, WA; and Daniel Pascucci, Fish & Richardson, P.C., San Diego, CA, and Paul L. Weisbecker, Litigation Counsel, Cingular Wireless LLC, Atlanta, GA, for the amici curiae.
- For Appellees:
- Martin L. Fineman, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant/cross-appellee., William K. Sanders, Deputy City Attorney, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees/cross-appellants.