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Missouri Preemption Litigation
- MML’s Opening Brief
- MML’s Reply Brief
- Eighth Circuit Decision
- Missouri Petitioners’ Opposition to Reconsideration
- Missouri Attorney General’s Petition for Supreme Court Review
- FCC’s Petition for Supreme Court Review
- Southwestern Bell’s Petition for Supreme Court Review
- Missouri Municipals’ Opposition to Supreme Court Review
- Missouri Attorney General’s Opening Brief
- FCC’s Opening Brief
- SW Bell’s Opening Brief
- Sprint’s Amicus Brief
- USTA’s Amicus Brief
- MML’s Responding Brief
- High Tech Broadband Coalition’s Amius Brief
- Consumer Federation of America’s Amicus Brief
- EDUCAUSE’s Amicus Brief
- Local Government Associations’ Amicus Brief
- Virginia Municipalities’ Amicus Brief
- Texas Municipalities’ Amicus Brief
- Lincoln Electric System’s Amicus Brief
- United Telecom Council’s Amicus Brief
- Knology Inc.’s Amicus Brief
- Congressman Rick Boucher’s Amicus Brief
Marco Island Cable v. Comcast (Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act)
- Marco Island Cable’s Complaint
- Order denying Comcast’s motion to dismiss
- Order granting in part and denying in part Comcast’s motions for summary judgment
- Minute Entry for July 21, 2006
- Jury Verdict of $3,268,392 in favor of Marco Island Cable
- Court denies declaratory and injunctive relief
- Court overturns jury verdict as excessive
- Court remits damages to $800,000 for Marco Island Cable
- Marco Island Cable’s Brief to the 11th Circuit
- 11th Circuit’s decision in favor of Marco Island Cable
- 11th Circuit’s denial of Comcast’s petition for rehearing
Louisville, Kentucky, “Level Playing Field” Litigation
- Louisville’s Opening Brief
- Louisville’s Reply Brief
- Trial Court’s Decision in the City’s Favor
- Louisville’s Appellee Brief
- Kentucky Ct. App. Affirms Trial Court (Appeal to Kentucky Supreme Court denied)
Lafayette, Louisiana, Litigation before the Louisiana Supreme Court
Florida Barrier to Entry Case
FCC Inquiry on Competition in Cable Industry
Bristol Virginia Utilities Cable Television Litigation
Bristol Virginia Utilities Telecommunications Service Litigation
Bridgewater Telecommunications Co. v. City of Monticello
APPA Comments to NTIA on Broadband Deployment
Texas industry group refutes common myths about municipal broadband
Texas has an opportunity to take advantage of vast new broadband-driven digital transformations that promise to unleash a wave of innovations that can transform the way we learn, work, and live as well as bridge the digital divide. Cities across the state are hoping to accelerate this opportunity and are stepping forward with creative solutions for extending the benefits of ubiquitous broadband access to city residents. Like their counterparts in other States,the municipalities of Texas also want to do their part to help America shed its embarrassingly low – 13th in the world — global ranking for broadband Internet access. This isn’t the time to be erecting new barriers to broadband when we have communities throughout the state that are ready, willing and able to extend the reach of the Internet through advanced broadband networks. Rather than embracing this future, some opponents of municipal broadband projects are hiding behind a set of unfounded myths in order to pass legislation that would stall, stifle or stop these innovative community-based efforts.
US Broadband Coalition Website
The US Broadband Coalition is a large and diverse coalition of entities that seeks to develop consensus on as many of the components of a national broadband plan as possible. On December 8, 2008, at an event on Capitol Hill, the Coalition issued an unprecedented Call to Action to President-elect Barak Obama and Congress to develop a comprehensive national broadband plan. The Call to Action included a framework for such a plan as well as a commitment by the members of the Coalition to continue to work together to explore the relevant issues in detail. For this purpose, the Coalition formed six working groups: Needs and Opportunities, Goals, Metrics, Availability, Adoption and Use, and Implementation.
Key Legal and Regulatory Issues Affecting Community Broadband Projects – Broadband Communities Summit, Austin, TX, April 10, 2014
Economic Impact of the ARRA, Five Years Later
From the White House Council of Economic Advisors
As part of the accountability and transparency provisions included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) was charged with providing to Congress quarterly reports on the effects of the Recovery Act on overall economic activity, and on employment in particular. In this final report, we provide an assessment of the effects of the Act through the fourth quarter of 2013 as well as an assessment of subsequent jobs measures.