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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Communications Law |
| Title: | NIXON v. MISSOURI MUN. LEAGUE |
| Date: | 03/24/04 |
| Case Number: | 02-1238 |
| Summary: | The class of entities contemplated by 47 U.S.C. section 253 does not include a State's own subdivisions; that preemption provision does not affect the power of States and localities to restrict their own (or their political inferiors') delivery of telecommunications services. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Communications Law |
| Title: | VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. v. LAW OFFICES OF CURTIS V. TRINKO, LLP |
| Date: | 01/13/04 |
| Case Number: | 02-682 |
| Summary: | A class action alleging breach of an incumbent local exchange carrier's duty, per the Telecommunications Act of 1996, to share its network with competitors does not state a claim under Sherman Act section 2. The activity complained of does not violate pre-existing antitrust standards, and the 1996 Act does not amend these standards; where there is a regulatory structure to deter and remedy anticompetitive harm, antitrust enforcement will tend to provide little additional benefit. |