· 9/1/1998
At & T Wireless PCS, Inc. v. City Council of Virginia Beach
Citations
- 155 F.3d 423
How courts have described this case
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- holding that written minutes of a meeting and the word “denied” stamped on a letter describing the application were sufficient
- holding that written minutes of a meeting and the word \denied\ stamped on a letter describing the application were sufficient
- holding that the \prohibits\ clause applies to general blanket bans on services and not to individual zoning decisions
- concluding that “policies that do not explicitly ban new service but do, when applied on a case-by-case basis, guarantee the rejection of every application” would be in violation of the prohibition clause of the TCA
- finding that local regulatory agency may discriminate between providers so long as such discrimination is reasonable
- finding that the Act contemplates some discrimination among providers but prohibits only unreasonable discrimination
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Judges: Faber, Luttig, Southern, Wilkins
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