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Firstcom, Inc. v. Qwest Corp.

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit by a competitive local carrier against an incumbent local carrier alleging violations of federal and state communications law, contract law...

Burnett v. Southwestern Bell Tele., L.P.

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action against defendant-former employer raising retaliatory discharge claims under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and ERISA, summary...

Consumers' Checkbook v. US Dept. of Hlth & Hum. Servs.

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Government Law
In a Freedom of Information Act action, summary judgment for Plaintiff is reversed. The financial information requested was exempt from disclosure...

Meyer v. Sprint Spectrum L.P.

Class Actions, Communications Law, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
A plaintiff has no standing to sue under the California Consumer Legal Remedies Act (CLRA) without some allegation that he or she has been damaged by...

Trinity Assocs., Inc. v. Telesector Res. Group, Inc.

Communications Law, Contracts
Order is affirmed where evidence supports the jury's conclusions that correspondence modified the parties' agreement and that defendant breached the...

US v. Tobin

Communications Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Elections, Government Law
Defendant's efforts to cripple the Democratic Party's get-out-the-vote initiative by jamming the Party's phone lines on election day did not violate...

Metro Lights, L.L.C. v. City of Los Angeles

Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a suit claiming that a city's ban on offsite commercial advertising violated the First Amendment in light of the city's contract with a private...

Illinois Bell Tele. Co., Inc. v. Global NAPs Illinois, Inc.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Contracts, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law
In a suit against a group of affiliated corporations claiming that defendants failed to pay for telecommunications services that the plaintiff had...

Equal Employment Opportunity Comm'n v. Southwestern Bell Tele., L.P.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Communications Law, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law
In an action brought by the EEOC against defendant-telephone company for the termination of two employees in violation of Title VII in which the jury...

Fones4All Corp. v. Fed. Communications Comm'n

Administrative Law, Communications Law
Petition for review of the FCC's denial of a petition for forbearance from the application of an FCC regulation, which removed any requirement that...