Plaintiffs Rebecca Del Valle, Rickey Reid, and Jeanne Blankenship brought this action alleging that BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc., breached the terms of the settlement agreement resolving their claims of employment discrimination. Appealing from the grant of summary judgment to BellSouth, plaintiffs argue that the district court erred in finding that BellSouth had complied with the req... More...   $0 (10-17-2006 - TN)

Defendant-Appellant Arguss Communications hired Plaintiff-Appellee CATV Services to liquidate leftover telecommunications equipment worth over $1 million. During the course of performance, Arguss sold some of the equipment on its own, despite a provision in the agreement that gave CATV the exclusive right to sell the equipment. CATV sued Arguss for breach of contract, claiming that Arguss fail... More...   $0 (09-12-2006 - CO)

The funding for such services ceased at the end of fiscal year 2003. For several years in the 1990s, the general assembly appropriated, upon the governor's request, funds to the department of hea... More...   $0 (09-12-2006 - MO)

R.C. Taylor, III sued Mario Gabelli and others on a False Claims Act (Qui Tam) theory for fraudulently deceiving the Federal Communications Commission in auctions for cell phone licenses. Gabelli runs Gamco Investors, Inc. and was chairman of Lunch Interactive, a telecommunications firm. Plaintiff alleged that between 1995 and 2000 Gabelli and others defrauded the FCC out of $160 mil... More...   $130000000 (07-16-2006 - NY)

Local governments, reacting to the rapid expansion of wireless cellular communications and accompanying infrastructure, have adopted ordinances to regulate the placement and aesthetics of wireless cellular telephone towers and ancillary equipment through a discretionary permitting process. The Wireless Telecommunications Ordinance (WTO) adopted by defendant County of San Diego (County), ... More...   $0 (06-21-2006 - CA)

Plaintiff-intervenor Bill Johnson appeals from an order denying his request for a mandatory injunction under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (TCA), 47 U.S.C. § 332(c)(7)(B).(1) Specifically, Mr. Johnson claims the Board of Adjustment of the City of Seminole, Oklahoma (the Board) violated the TCA when it denied a request for a zoning variance to construct and locate a cellular transmission to... More...   $0 (05-16-2006 - OK)

Plaintiff, Rita Langenhorst, as special administrator of the estate of Gerald Langenhorst, deceased, brought a wrongful-death action in the circuit court of St. Clair County against defendants, Norfolk Southern Railway Company (Norfolk), Jimmy Ellis, Samuel Baggett, and Keith Egmon. Plaintiff sought damages for the death of Gerald Langenhorst, resulting from a train-motor vehicle accident occu... More...   $0 (03-02-2006 - IL)

Plaintiffs brought an action in the circuit court of Madison County challenging the constitutionality of section 13-502.5 of the Public Utilities Act (220 ILCS 5/13-502.5 (West 2002)), which abated proceedings then pending before the Illinois Commerce Commission and mandated that $90 million be refunded to certain customers of telecommunication services. On plaintiffs' motion for summary judgm... More...   $0 (01-10-2006 - IL)

[1] Appellants, Cecil Cundy and Sundance Mountain Resort, Inc. (collectively Cundy), seek review of summary judgment orders issued by the district court. Those orders prohibited Cundy from interfering with the existing rights-of-way enjoyed by Appellees, Range Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (Range Telephone) and Union Telephone Company (Union Telephone), across lands owned by Cundy. We will affirm... More...   $0 (12-01-2005 - WY)

Jodi Zisumbo appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of McLeodUSA Telecommunications Services, Inc. ("McLeod"). Zisumbo filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Utah alleging McLeod discriminated against her and subjected her to a hostile work environment based on her pregnancy in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 4... More...   $0 (11-29-2005 - UT)

This case deals with the legal and constitutional sufficiency of the class action notice program under Fed. R. Civ. P. 23 and the Due Process Clause. Appellants are unnamed class plaintiffs in an action against Appellee Sprint Corporation. The class action concerns alleged instances of securities fraud surrounding Sprint's failed merger attempt with WorldCom, Inc. Appellants received notice of ... More...   $50000000 (11-01-2005 - KS)

In February 2004, the sheriff, pursuant to ORS 166.293, revoked petitioner's concealed handg... More...   $0 (10-11-2005 - OR)

ERISA class action claim against Williams Companies, Inc. which claimed that Williams misled participants in its 401(k) retirement plan about the financial conditions of Williams and its former telecommunications unit, Williams Communications Group, Inc. The plaintiffs claimed that Williams breached its fiduciary duty to them and exposed them to unreasonable risk. Williams Communications file... More...   $57600000 (09-29-2005 - OK)

This Opinion considers the fairness of settlements reached this year in the securities class action litigation arising from the collapse of telecommunications giant WorldCom, Inc. The seventeen Underwriter Defendants consist of ABN/AMRO 1 Inc. ("ABN Amro"); Banc of America Securities LLC ("BOA"); Blaylock & Partners, L.P. ("Blaylock"); BNP Paribas Securities Corp. ("BNP"); Caboto Holding S... More...   $3600000000 (09-23-2005 - NY)

of citizenship jurisdiction, see id. § ... More...   $0 (08-18-2005 - IL)

This opinion encompasses three related appeals involving defendants Yehuda and Miriam Draiman and plaintiff Multiut Corporation (Multiut), an energy consulting and energy management services company based in Skokie. Central to defendants' appeals are case Nos. 1-03-0857 and 1-03-2855, in which defendants challenge the trial court's rulings in favor of Multiut and its award of more than $1 mil... More...   $0 (08-07-2005 - IL)

Plaintiff-appellee Dora Elizabeth Cook, a bus driver for the Gwinnett County School District ("district"), brought the instant § 1983 action against the defendants-appellants,1 officials employed by the district, alleging violations of her First Amendment rights to free speech and free association, as well as her right to equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment.2 The defendants in... More...   $0 (07-01-2005 - GA)

Consumers traditionally access the Internet through "dial-up" connections provided via local telephone lines. Internet service providers (ISPs), in turn, link those calls to the Internet network, not only by providing a physical connection, but also by offering consumers the ability to translate raw data into information they may both view on their own computers and transmit to others connecte... More...   $0 (06-28-2005 - CA)

Defendant, Wayne-Westland Community Schools, operates the public school system in the city of Wayne, part... More...   $0 (06-24-2005 - MI)

Attorney General Bill Lockyer today announced California businesses will receive up to $2.6 million in financial benefits under an agreement between his office and U.S. Bancorp (USB) to resolve a case connecte... More...   $2600000 (06-09-2005 - CA)

The Securities and Exchange Commission today issued an Order instituting public administrative proceedings against John B. Hoffmann, formerly the Global Head of Equity Research at Salomon Smith Barney, Inc. (SSB), now known as Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. (CGM), and Kevin J. McCaffrey, formerly the Head of North American Equity Research at SSB, based upon their failure to reasonably supervise... More...   $1 (05-20-2005 - DC)

Pamela Gilmore brought an action against the County of Douglas under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that the Douglas County Corrections Center (the DCCC) violated her Fourteenth Amendment equal protection rights by assessing her charges for collect telephone calls made to her from inmates in the facility. The district court1concluded that Gilmore failed to state a cause of action and dismissed... More...   $0 (05-03-2005 - NE)

Securities fraud class action claims by New York state Comptroller Alan Hevesi and other against Arthur Andersen LLP for negligence in the auditing activities conducted by the defendant in conjunction with the operation of WorldCom. Hevesi claimed that Andersen failed investors by missing the fraud being committed by WorldCom in 2000 and 2001. Anderson was an independent auditor who, plaintif... More...   $65000000 (04-27-2005 - NY)

This multidistrict litigation includes five class actions brought initially in the state courts of Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, New York, and Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs sue Nokia Inc. and other entities (collectively, "Nokia") involved in the manufacture and sale of wireless telephones. The plaintiffs claim that wireless telephones emit an unsafe level of radio frequency radiation and t... More...   $0 (03-16-2005 - MD)

This multidistrict litigation includes five class actions brought initially in the state courts of Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, New York, and Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs sue Nokia Inc. and other entities (collectively, "Nokia") involved in the manufacture and sale of wireless telephones. The plaintiffs claim that wireless telephones emit an unsafe level of radio frequency radiation and t... More...   $0 (03-16-2005 - MD)