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SINCLAIR BROAD. GROUP, INC. v. FED. COMMUNICATIONS COMM'N

Administrative Law, Communications Law
The FCC's local television ownership rule, which allows "common ownership of two stations in the same local market only if one of them is not among...

JAHN v. 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, INC.

Communications Law, Contracts
47 C.F.R. section 52.107, which proscribes the brokering of toll-free telephone numbers, is not retroactive and does not affect transactions entered...

CITY OF TUCSON v. US WEST COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Public Utilities
In a suit alleging that defendant illegally usurped public right-of-ways for transaction of its telecomm business, because Arizona has not designated...

COMSAT CORP. v. FED. COMMUNICATIONS COMM'N

Administrative Law, Communications Law
Section 9 of the Communications Act of 1934 is sufficient to justify the assessment and collection of regulatory fees from petitioner's use of...

VAN BUSKIRK v. CABLE NEWS NETWORK, INC.

Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit against news media companies for their malicious use of plaintiff's statements in an investigative piece about the United States' use of...

COMT'Y TELEVISION SYS., INC. v. CARUSO

Communications Law
Where an alleged violation of the Federal Communications Act, 47 U.S.C. section 605(a), arises from the use of a cable-signal descrambling device, a...

SPRINT SPECTRUM L.P. v. MILLS

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Contracts
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 does not preempt nonregulatory decisions of a local governmental entity or instrumentality acting in its...

NEXTEL WEST CORP. v. UNITY TOWNSHIP

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A wireless telecommunications company's claims, alleging that a zoning ordinance violated the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, were not mooted...

US CELLULAR INVESTMENT CO. OF LOS ANGELES v. GTE MOBILNET, INC.

Communications Law, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law
If the plain language of a partnership agreement's anti-transfer provisions clearly does not restrict the legitimate sale of the stock of a corporate...

FOX TELEVISION STATIONS, INC. v. FED. COMMUNICATIONS COMM'N

Communications Law, Entertainment Law
F.C.C.'s decision not to repeal or to modify the National Television Station Ownership rule was arbitrary, where it could not show why the rule is...