Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Communications Law : From 10/01/06 To 07/01/07
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Elections, Tax-exempt Organizations |
| Title: | Fed. Election Comm'n v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc. |
| Date: | 06/25/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-969, 06-970 |
| Summary: | In an action brought by a nonprofit corporation, Wisconsin Right to Life (WRTL), seeking declaratory and injunctive relief and alleging that the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act section 203's prohibition on corporate election communications was unconstitutional as applied to certain ads, summary judgment for WRTL on its challenge is affirmed. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Contracts |
| Title: | Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly |
| Date: | 05/21/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-1126 |
| Summary: | Stating a claim under section 1 of the Sherman Act requires a complaint with enough factual matter (taken as true) to suggest that an agreement was made. An allegation of parallel conduct and a bare assertion of conspiracy will not suffice. Under such plausibility standard, plaintiffs' putative class action at hand should be dismissed as it alleged only that major telecommunications providers engaged in certain parallel conduct unfavorable to competition, and did not make any independent allegation of actual agreement among the Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers for purposes of a conspiracy in restraint of trade. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Communications Law |
| Title: | Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc. v. Metrophones Telecommunications, Inc. |
| Date: | 04/17/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-705 |
| Summary: | In the context of rules that require long-distance and other communications carriers to compensate a payphone operator when a caller uses a payphone to obtain free access to the carrier's lines, the FCC's application of 47 U.S.C. section 201(b) to a long distance carrier's refusal to pay compensation is a reasonable interpretation of the statute, and is, thus, lawful. 47 U.S.C. section 207 authorizes a payphone operator to bring a federal-court lawsuit against a recalcitrant carrier that refuses to pay the compensation ordered by the FCC. |