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City of Rancho Palos Verdes v. Abrams

Civil Rights, Communications Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
An individual may not enforce the limitations on local zoning authority, set forth in section 332(c)(7) of the Communications Act, through an action...

FTC v. Freecom Communications, Inc.

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Communications Law
An award of attorney fees in favor of defendant, pursuant to the Equal Access to Justice Act, is reversed where clear evidence does not support the...

AM. LIBRARY ASS'N v. FCC

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Constitutional Law
A rehearing is required to determine whether plaintiff has standing to challenge an FCC rule requiring digital television receivers to give effect to...

US TELECOM ASS'N v. FCC

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Government Law, Public Utilities
An FCC order, which set forth the conditions under which wireline telecommunications carriers must transfer telephone numbers to wireless carriers, is...

CENTRAL TEXAS TEL. COOP. v. FCC

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Government Law
The district court's order, which authorized wireless-to-wireless number portability, was not arbitrary or capricious, and was properly adopted...

ATLAS TEL. CO. v. OKLAHOMA CORP. COMM'N

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission's orders, which established interconnection obligations under the federal Telecommunications Act between rural...

METROPCS, INC. v. CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO

Communications Law, Government Law
Defendant-City's grant of plaintiff's application to construct a wireless telecommunications antenna is reversed where the decision unreasonably...

ARBITRON, INC. v. TRALYN BROAD. INC.

Communications Law, Contracts
Under New York contract law, two parties entering into a licensing agreement for radio ratings and data may delegate price-setting authority to a...

COVAD COMMUNICATIONS v. BELL ATLANTIC CORP.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Communications Law
Plaintiff's claim, alleging defendant unlawfully refused to deal with would-be customers who had orders for DSL service pending with plaintiff,...

QWEST COMMUNICATIONS v. FCC

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Government Law
In a dispute concerning the FCC's mechanism for providing federal support to non-rural telecommunications carriers under the 1996 Telecommunications...