Legal Opinion
Sprint Spectrum L.P. v. City of Carmel
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 22, 2004No. 03-2216PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.
One section of the historical Telecommunications Act of 1996 gives cellular telephone service providers the right to challenge local zoning decisions in federal court. 47 U.S.C. § 332(c)(7)(B)(v). While on its face a simple notion, “this statute fairly bristles with potential issues .... ” Cellular Tel. Co. v. Town of Oyster Bay, 166 F.3d 490, 494 (2nd Cir.1999). Our case today concerns one of those issues — when is a land use decision a “final action” in order to create federal subject matter jurisdiction. Specifically, we must examine whether the Act modifies…
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