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Cellphone Fee Termination Cases

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Communications Law, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, Remedies
In a consolidated appeal of trial court's approval of the settlement, arising from one of several class action suits that challenge wireless telephone...

Thibault v. BellSouth Telecomms. Inc.

Communications Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action for unpaid wages arising out of electrical splicing work plaintiff performed in New Orleans, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane...

Ostergren v. Cuccinelli

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a First Amendment challenge to Virginia's Personal Information Privacy Act, which prohibits intentionally communicating another individual's social...

Cappuccitti v. DirecTV, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Commercial Law, Communications Law
In an action against DirecTV, Inc., seeking the recovery, on behalf of plaintiffs and similarly situated DirecTV subscribers in Georgia, of the fees...

Mink v. Knox

Civil Rights, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Media Law
In an action seeking damages for the search and seizure of plaintiff's computer as part of an aborted criminal libel prosecution, dismissal of the...

San Juan Cable LLC v. Puerto Rico Tel., Co., Inc.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Government Law
In a private cable operator's suit against a rival-competitor claiming that the defendant has transgressed section 541(b)(1) of the Cable Act by...

Fox Tel. Stations, Inc. v. FCC

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law, Government Law, Media Law
In a petition for review of the indecency policy of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), commonly referred to as the "fleeting expletive"...

US v. Sweeney

Communications Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendants' convictions and sentences for manufacturing and distributing cable descramblers intended for unauthorized interception of cable signals...

Telcordia Technologies, Inc. v. Cisco Sys. Inc.

Communications Law, Intellectual Property, Patent, Remedies
In plaintiff's suit for infringement of three patents related to transmission of data in telecommunications networks, the judgment of the district...

College Std. Magazine v. Student Ass'n of the State Univ. of NY

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law
In a facial challenge under the First Amendment to a policy pursuant to which defendant university distributed funds to student groups, defendants'...