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FED. COMMUNICATIONS COMM'N v. NEXTWAVE PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Law, Communications Law, Copyright, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property
Bankruptcy Code section 525 prohibits the FCC from removing licenses held by a debtor in bankruptcy upon the debtor's failure to make timely payments...

AT&T v. FED. COMMUNICATIONS COMM'N

Administrative Law, Communications Law
An incumbent local exchange carrier created a sham entity to increase rates charged to an interexchange carrier, in violation of section 201(b) of the...

US v. STEIGER

Communications Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Evidence
An anonymous source did not intercept electronic communications in violation of the Wiretap Act when he hacked into an accused child molester's...

BELLSOUTH TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC. v. MCIMETRO ACCESS TRANSMISSION SERVS., INC.

Communications Law, Contracts, Public Utilities
The Georgia State Public Commission had no statutory authority to interpret interconnection agreements between telecommunications carriers, which were...

SPRINT CORP. v. FED. COMMUNICATIONS COMM'N

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Public Utilities
The FCC failed to provide adequate notice and opportunity to comment prior to promulgating a rule governing the means by which payphone service...

DAIMLERCHRYLSER AG v. BLOOM

Communications Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
District court properly granted summary judgment to the owner of a licensed phone number in a trademark action, as the owner of the phone number is...

S. CO. SERVS., INC. v. FED. COMMUNICATIONS COMM'N

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Public Utilities
FCC orders, announcing regulations and procedures designed to assure that telecommunications providers can obtain cable or wire attachment space at...

SECOND GENERATION PROPS., L.P. v. TOWN OF PELHAM

Communications Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a Telecommunications Act case, the district court erroneously found that if any carrier provides any coverage within a purported gap, there cannot...

MOTION PICTURE ASS'N OF AM., INC. v. FED. COMMUNICATIONS COMM'N

Communications Law, Media Law
Where the FCC promulgates regulations that significantly implicate program content, section 1 of the Communications Act of 1934 is not a source of...

VERIZON NORTH, INC. v. STRAND

Communications Law, Public Utilities
In an incumbent local telecommunications carrier's challenge to a Michigan Public Service Commission order, a tariff requirement was inconsistent with...