Minnesota AG Asks Supreme Court to Review Wireless Consumer Protection Law
Jeffrey Silva writes on RCR Wireless News:
Minnesota Attorney General Mike Hatch (D) asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court decision striking down a state law requiring cell phone carriers to notify subscribers of—and sometimes get permission for—changes to wireless contracts.More here.
In December, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis overturned a lower court ruling upholding Minnesota’s wireless consumer protection law. The 8th Circuit sided with the mobile phone industry in ruling the state statute amounted to rate regulation and therefore was pre-empted by federal law.
posted by Fergie @ 3/15/2006 11:42:00 AM
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