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PREFERRED SITES, LLC v. TROUP COUNTY

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A county violated section 704(a) of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, through denial of an application for conditional use approval, to construct a...

NEW WORLD RADIO, INC. v. FCC

Administrative Law, Communications Law
A Washington, D.C. radio station licensee lacked standing to challenge the FCC's renewal of a license for a Maryland radio station, where an interest...

COSTA DE ORO TELEVISION, INC. v. FCC

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Media Law
In determining local television market designations pursuant to cable television mandatory carriage rules, the FCC properly: 1) sustained earlier...

METRO EAST CENTER FOR CONDITIONING & HEALTH v. QWEST COMMUNICATIONS INT'L, INC.

Communications Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
Because a tariff accepted by a customer for use of a product is an "agreement" under the Federal Arbitration Act, a motion to compel arbitration of a...

NOLEN v. NUCENTRIX BROADBAND NETWORKS INC.

Communications Law, Consumer Protection Law, Debt Collection
A claim on behalf of cable subscribers, for collection of unlawful debts in the form of late fees in violation of RICO, was properly dismissed where...

FOX TELEVISION STATIONS, INC. v. FCC

Administrative Law, Communications Law
The choice between two interpretations of Telecommunications Act section 202(h) was unnecessary to the outcome of the case at hand, but the question...

LAW OFFICES OF CURTIS V. TRINKO, L.L.P. v. BELL ATLANTIC CORP.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Communications Law
In a claim alleging that defendant denied plaintiff's local phone service provider equal access to defendant's local network, 1) plaintiff alleged...

VERIZON TEL. CO. v. FCC

Administrative Law, Communications Law
Incumbent local exchange carriers waived their primary statutory claim in a challenge to an FCC order implementing section 251(c)(6) of the...

AT&T CORP. v. FCC

Administrative Law, Communications Law
The FCC's ruling that long-distance carriers have an obligation to purchase interstate switched access services provided by competitive local exchange...

SOUTHERN CO. v FED. COMMUNICATIONS COMM'N

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Public Utilities
In challenges to several FCC guidelines implementing 1996 Amendments to the Pole Attachments Act (Act), the FCC erred in finding that the Act extends...