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ECHOSTAR COMMUNICATIONS CORP. v. FCC

Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Communications Law
FCC's decision to dismiss a program access complaint, by a provider of direct broadcast satellite television service, was based on substantial...

CITIES OF AUSTIN, DALLAS, FT. WORTH, & HEREFORD v. SOUTHWESTERN BELL TEL. CO.

Communications Law, Public Utilities
Texas Utilities Code Chapter 58 does not, either expressly or impliedly, authorize the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) to circumvent its...

SCANDINAVIAN SATELLITE SYS., AS v. PRIME TV, LTD.

Communications Law, Contracts, Intellectual Property, Copyright
Where a complaint is founded on a claim of copyright infringement on broadcast programming, for which declaratory and injunctive relief is sought from...

GLOBAL NAPS, INC. v. FED. COMMUNICATIONS COMM'N

Communications Law, Contracts
The FCC's refusal to preempt the regulatory authority of the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy, over interpretation of an...

HORSLEY v RIVERA

Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
An allegedly defamatory statement made during a television program, that an anti-abortion activist was an "accomplice to homicide", is protected under...

U.S. TELECOM ASS'N v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMM'N

Administrative Law, Communications Law
Incumbent local exchange carriers's petition for review of FCC's Line Sharing Order and Local Competition Order is granted, and orders are remanded to...

ACS OF ANCHORAGE, INC. v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMM'N

Administrative Law, Communications Law
In challenge by an Alaska local-exchange carrier to an FCC order finding that appellant exceeded its permissible rate of return, the Commission's...

VERIZON MARYLAND INC. v. PUB. UTIL. COMM'N OF MARYLAND

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Public Utilities
Jurisdiction is found under 28 U.S.C. section 1331, for a local-exchange carrier's claim that a state public utility commission's order, requiring...

US v. TORRES-PALMA

Communications Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Use of video conferencing at sentencing violates the provision of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 43, which requires a defendant to be "present" at...

VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, INC. v. FED. COMMUNICATIONS COMM'N

Communications Law, Public Utilities
The FCC can require state utility commissions to set rates charged by incumbent telephone service carriers for leased elements on a forward-looking...