all - Opinion Summaries

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...

CEDAR RAPIDS CELLULAR TELEPHONE, L.P. v. WWC LICENSE, LLC

Communications Law, Consumer Protection Law
In action by cell phone service providers to enjoin the Iowa Attorney General from enforcing state consumer protection statutes against them, the...

SIKES v. TELELINE, INC.

Class Actions, Communications Law
In a class action suit against a telephone carrier, arising out of a 900-number telemarketing program, the district court abused its discretion in...

RUGGIERO v. FED. COMMUNICATION COMM'N

Communications Law, Constitutional Law
This court agreed with appellant, an unlicensed microbroadcaster, that the Radio Broadcasting Preservation Act of 2000's character qualification...

GRID RADIO v. FED. COMMUNICATION COMM'N

Communications Law
Absent a demonstration that the FCC's ban on low-power FM stations was indisputably unlawful or unconstitutional, the FCC had no obligation to...

COBB v. TIME, INC.

Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
In libel action by a boxer against a publication, there was insufficient evidence to support a finding of actual malice on the part of the defendant...

US TELECOM ASS'N v. FED. BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Communications Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, 47 USC 1001 et seq., the FBI need only compensate telephone service providers for...

BROWN v. MCI WORLDCOM NETWORK SERVS., INC.

Communications Law
The filed rate doctrine does not apply to a claim that a phone company incorrectly charged a user for an extra account, since it does not challenge...

NAT'L CABLE & TELECOMM. ASS'N, INC. v. GULF POWER CO.

Communications Law, Cyberspace Law
47 USC 224(b) of the Pole Attachments Act, which requires the Federal Communications Commission to set reasonable rates for attachments to telephone...

HIGH PLAINS WIRELESS, L.P. v. FED. COMMUNICATIONS COMM'N

Communications Law
47 CFR 1.2105(c)(1)(2000), which prohibited collusion in open bidding for PCS spectrum auctions, did not clearly prohibit reflexive bidding.