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Council Tree Communications, Inc. v. Fed. Communications Comm'n

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Government Law
A petition for review of multiple orders in FCC rulemaking in which the FCC changed the qualifications for designated entities (DE) status as well as...

Holster v. Gatco, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Communications Law, Consumer Protection Law
In a class action under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), dismissal of the action for lack of subject matter jurisdiction is affirmed...

Caro v. Weintraub

Communications Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates
In an action under Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act based on the unauthorized recording of a conversation, dismissal of the...

Bay Guardian Co. v. New Times Media LLC

Communications Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Media Law, Commercial Law
In Bay Guardian's suit against San Francisco Weekly (competing alternative newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area) claiming unfair competition under...

Young v. Verizon's Bell Atlantic Cash Balance Plan

Communications Law, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's class action suit under ERISA section 502(a) and U.S.C. section 1132(a) against Verizon and its Cash Balance Plan, claiming that...

Ring Plus, Inc. v. Cingular Wireless Corp.

Communications Law, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In plaintiff's suit for infringement of its patent, related to a software based algorithm and method for generating and delivering messages over a...

Johnson v. Arden

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Cyberspace Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action making multiple claims against several defendants as a result of allegedly defamatory statements posted on an internet discussion board,...

Enovsys LLC. v. Nextel Communications, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Family Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent infringement suit against Sprint Nextel Corporation and its various subsidiaries, claiming that Sprint Nextel's iDEN and CDMA wireless...

Tucker v. Pacific Bell Mobile Serv.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Communications Law, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Sanctions
In plaintiffs' proposed class action, claiming that defendant cell phone providers violated the Unfair Competition Law by selling "bucket plans"...

In re the Marriage of Nicholas

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Family Law
In a highly contested marital dissolution proceeding, involving the co-founder of Broadcom Corporation and his spouse, a contention that the family...