Legal Opinion
Southwestern Bell Wireless Inc. v. Johnson County Board of County Commissioners
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided December 27, 1999No. 98-3264PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHEN H. ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs, referred to collectively herein as SW Bell, 1 brought this suit against the Board of County Commissioners of Johnson County, Kansas (“BOCC”), seeking a declaration that federal law preempts a county zoning regulation involving radio frequency interference 2 (“RFI”), and an injunction against enforcement of the regulation. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of SW Bell, invalidating the regulation as impliedly preempted by federal law and implicitly rejecting the BOCC’s contention that such preemption violates the Tenth…
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