· 4/23/2014
Green Mountain Realty Corp. v. Leonard
Citations
- 750 F.3d 30
- 60 Communications Reg. (P&F) 256
- 2014 WL 1613704
- 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 7612
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- noting “personal wireless communications facilities” are commonly known as “cell phone towers”
- “[W]here a local authority purports to pass upon [effective prohibition], the federal courts afford it ‘[n]o special deference.’” (second alteration in original
- “question of whether or not a local denial constitutes an effective prohibition” is largely fact- driven
- “The question of whether or not a local denial constitutes an effective prohibition violative of the Act is definitively answered by the district court, not the local zoning authority.”
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Judges: Thompson, Souter, Stahl
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