New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. City of Lowell

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding ordinance invalid despite city’s statutory authority to establish reasonable regulations for welfare of citizens
• emphasizing “the desirability of uniformity of standards applicable to utilities regulated by the Department of Public Utilities”
• intent to preempt inferred from comprehensive legislative scheme
• discussing desirability of uniform utility regulation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).