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· 7/20/2009

T-MOBILE USA, INC. v. City of Anacortes

Citations

  • 572 F.3d 987
  • 48 Communications Reg. (P&F) 244
  • 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 15924
  • 2009 WL 2138980

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that “the City’s denial of the application without showing the existence of some potentially available and technically feasible alternative constituted an effective prohibition of services, which the district court properly enjoined”
  • recognizing locality may violate the TCA’s effective prohibition clause even if substantial evidence supports the locality’s decision denying permit
  • upholding district court’s injunction in favor of the provider based on effective prohibition
  • record “included an analysis of eighteen alternative sites”
  • considering the availability of proposed alternatives

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Canby, Thompson, Callahan

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