all - Opinion Summaries

DirecTV, Inc. v. Leto

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Intellectual Property
In a suit brought by DirecTV, a satellite cable company, against persons caught pirating its TV transmissions, dismissal of a suit against one...

Iowa Network Servs., Inc. v. Qwest Corp.

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Contracts
In an action brought by a carrier against Qwest Corporation alleging violations of its federal and state tariffs, as well as unjust enrichment, for...

Connect Communications Corp. v. Southwest Bell Tel., L.P.

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Contracts, Cyberspace Law
In a case involving telephone calls from one telephone company's customers to the individual customer's ISP where the ISP was a telephone customer of...

Qualcomm Inc. v. Nokia Corp.

Communications Law, Contracts, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
Denial of Nokia's motion to stay litigation with plaintiffs involving a license to patents having to do with mobile telecommunications standards,...

USCOC of Greater Iowa, Inc. v. Zoning Bd. of Adjustment of the City of Des Moines

Communications Law, Construction, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
An order directing a zoning board to grant an application for a conditional use permit to construct a cellular tower at a particular location is...

Communication Workers of Am. v. Ector County Hosp.

Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
A judgment for plaintiffs in a workplace First Amendment case is reversed where, under the balancing test of Pickering v. Bd. of Educ., the interest...

US v. Eckhardt

Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Conviction on multiple counts of violating the Communications Decency Act, involving hundreds of phonecalls to a specific extension assigned to a...

Southwestern Bell Tel., L.P. v. Pub. Util. Comm'n of Texas

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Contracts
Summary judgment for utilities commission and telecommunications company is affirmed where a unilateral change by the commission that redefined...

Klimas v. Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.

Class Actions, Communications Law
Dismissal of a putative class action brought under the Protection of Subscriber Privacy portion of the Cable Communications Policy Act is affirmed...

CTIA - The Wireless Ass'n v. Fed. Communications Comm'n

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Petition for review of defendant's order -- determining construction of wireless communication towers is an undertaking under the National Historic...