Ivy Broadcasting Company, Inc. v. American Telephone and Telegraph Company and New York Telephone Company, Defendants-Appellees-Appellants

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• stating questions concerning the duties, charges and liabilities of telegraph or telephone companies with respect to interstate communications service are to be governed solely by federal law
• federal common law applied to claims for negligence and breach of contract in providing interstate telephone service by a communications common carrier that was subject to the Communications Act of 1934
• federal common law governs contractual duties with respect to interstate communications service
• “questions concerning the duties, charges and liabilities of telegraph or telephone companies with respect to interstate communications service are to be governed solely by federal law and *** the states are precluded from acting in this area”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).