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In re: Teleglobe Communications Corp.

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Evidence, M&A
In bankruptcy proceedings involving suits brought by a bankrupt company's subsidiaries against Canada's largest telecommunications company, which had...

Fisher v. NOS Communications

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law
In an appeal arising from Multidistrict Litigation brought against defendants-telecommunications companies offering interstate service by customers...

Advanced Telecomm. Network, Inc. v. Allen

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Communications Law
In case involving a chapter 11 debtor seeking to recover certain transfers made before the company declared bankruptcy, order affirming bankruptcy...

AT&T Corp. v. Clarendon Am. Ins. Co.

Bankruptcy Law, Communications Law, Contracts, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Insurance Law, Securities Law
In an action brought by AT&T against several insurance carriers for breaches of certain issued Director and Officer policies, dismissal of the...

Covenant Media of S.C. v. City of N. Charleston

Civil Rights, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Media Law
In civil rights suit brought by billboard operator challenging constitutionality of sign regulation, summary judgment for defendant city is affirmed...

Am. Civ. Liberties Union v. Nat'l Sec. Agency

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Remedies
In a challenge to warrantless wiretapping under the government's counter-terrorism operation known as the Terrorist Surveillance Program (TSP),...

Bryan v. BellSouth Commc'ns, Inc.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Communications Law
In case involving putative class action alleging that defendant's Federal Universal Service Charge was excessive and that defendant violated North...

Comcast of Illinois v. Multi-Vision Elecs., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Remedies
In an action against defendant-company and its sole officer/shareholder alleging that they had violated the Cable Communications Policy Act and...

Berry v. T-Mobile USA, Inc.

Civil Rights, Communications Law, Contracts, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action setting forth contract claims and alleging that plaintiff's termination by T-Mobile violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA),...

Alameda v. State of Texas

Communications Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
The doctrine of vicarious-consent applies to the consent exception of the wiretapping statute, Penal Code section 16.02(b).