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New England Health Care Employees Pension Fund v. Woodruff

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Communications Law, Securities Law
In an appeal brought by the former CEO and CFO of Qwest, approval of a class action settlement in a securities fraud case, which did not include the...

NextG Networks of NY, Inc., v. City of NY

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Communications Law
In a case concerning whether defendant city has impeded plaintiff's access to the city telecommunications market by unlawfully denying plaintiff the...

IFC Credit Corp v. United Bus. & Indus. Fed. Credit Union

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Communications Law, Contracts
In a suit to recover on contracts entered into by a defunct communications company by an owner of the right to payments under the contracts, a jury...

DIRECTV, Inc. v. Tolson

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Constitutional Law
In suit by providers of satellite television programming alleging that North Carolina's system of taxing multi-channel television programming violates...

Biggerstaff v. FCC

Administrative Law, Communications Law
Petitions for review of respondents final rule implementing the Junk Fax Prevention Act of 2005 are dismissed. One petitioner's petition is dismissed...

Beattie v. CenturyTel, Inc.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Communications Law, Consumer Protection Law
In a class action alleging that defendant-telecommunications service provider violated federal and state law by using deceptive billing practices to...

Sprint Nextel Corp. v. FCC

Administrative Law, Communications Law
In case where respondent-FCC concluded that, since the commission deadlocked on a petition to forbear from applying several regulatory requirements to...

Qwest Servs. Corp. v. FCC

Administrative Law, Communications Law
In a case involving two kinds of prepaid calling cards, internet protocol transport cards and menu-driven cards, and the FCC's finding that both kinds...

DIRECTV, Inc. v. Seijas

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Cyberspace Law
There is a private right of action for the unlawful interception of encrypted satellite transmissions under the Federal Communications Act, 47 U.S.C....

PCTV Gold, Inc. v. SpeedNet, LLC

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Communications Law, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, M&A, Remedies
An order preliminarily enjoining appellant from entering into a merger or executing a joint venture with Clearwire, plaintiff's competitor, pending...