CommLaw Monitor

News and analysis from Kelley Drye’s communications practice group

Consolidated Net Neutrality Appeal Transferred to D.C. Circuit

On March 28, 2018, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted an unopposed motion filed by the petitioners to transfer the consolidated appeals of the Restoring Internet Freedom…

Courts Continue to Strictly Interpret the Preemptive Scope of Tower Siting Rules

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 imposes limitations on a local government’s ability to deny permits to construct telecommunication towers. These include, among others, prohibitions against discrimination, a review…