Legal Opinion
Nixon v. Missouri Municipal League
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 24, 2004No. 02-1238PublishedCited by 120 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Souter
Section 101(a) of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 110 Stat. 70, 47 U. S. C. § 253, authorizes preemption of state and local laws and regulations expressly or effectively “prohibiting the ability of any entity” to provide telecommunications services. The question is whether the class of entities in-*129eludes the State’s own subdivisions, so as to affect the power of States and localities to restrict their own (or their political inferiors’) delivery of such services. We hold it does not.
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In 1997, the General Assembly of Missouri enacted the statute codified as §392.410(7) of the State’s…
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