Legal Opinion
Sorenson Communications Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 20, 2014No. 13-1122, 13-1246PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge BROWN.
BROWN, Circuit Judge.
The word “captioning” typically conjures up an image of a television set with black bars scrolling at the bottom, transcribing a speaker’s words with varying degrees of accuracy. For hearing-impaired individuals, however, it may also evoke the image of something else: telephones that have words scrolling on a screen during a call.
Sorenson Communications is a purveyor of these devices; its technology uses the Internet to transmit and receive both the call itself and the derived captions. Departing from common industry…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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