all - Opinion Summaries

United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma v. FCC

Communications Law, Environmental Law, Indian Law
Granted in part. In a petition to review an order loosening regulations to allow microcell transmission towers supporting cell phone reception to be...

Patel v. Facebook, Inc.

Communications Law
Affirmed. The district court properly certified a class under Fed. R. Civ. P. 23 of users of Facebook, Inc., who alleged that Facebook’s...

Andrews v. Sirius XM Radio, Inc.

Communications Law, Consumer Protection Law
Affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant in an action under the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act, which...

Force v. Facebook, Inc.

Communications Law
Affirmed. Plaintiffs appealed a dismissal of their claims that Facebook unlawfully assisted Hamas in terrorist attacks in Israel. The court affirmed...

The Koala v. Khosla

Civil Procedure, Communications Law
Reversed in part, vacated in part. The district court dismissed Plaintiff, a student organization at the University of California, San Diego....

GLH Communications, Inc. v. FCC

Contracts, Communications Law, Administrative Law
Affirmed. The FCC's decision to cancel a cellular phone company's radio spectrum licenses because the company failed to make the installment payment...

Knight First Amendment Institute v. Trump

Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, Communications Law
Affirmed. Trump appealed from a judgment concluding that he engaged in unconstitutional discrimination by utilizing Twitter’s blocking function. The...

Jenni Rivera Enterprises v. Latin World Entertainment etc

Communications Law, Entertainment Law
Reversed order denying Defendant’s motion to strike. Plaintiff represented deceased celebrity, Jenni Rivera, and they sought to restrict disclosure by...

PDR Network, LLC v. Carlton Harris Chiropractic, Inc.

Communications Law, Administrative Law
Addressed whether the Telephone Consumer Protection Act prohibits unsolicited fax advertisements that promote free goods, such as no-cost magazine...

Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck

Media Law, Communications Law, Constitutional Law
Held that a private entity operating public access cable TV channels was not subject to First Amendment constraints on its editorial discretion. The...