The Supreme Court will review a decision against Rancho Palos Ver...
The Supreme Court will review a decision against Rancho Palos Verdes, Cal., in a suit brought by an amateur radio operator who claimed the city wrongly denied him a permit to use a radio antenna for commercial purposes. In…
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a case being watched by wireless carriers, the court will decide whether the Telecom Act provides for money damages against city officials when violations occur, or just a court order requiring compliance. The 9th U.S. Appeals Court, San Francisco, held the radio operator should be compensated. The Rancho Palos Verdes case is important because there’s “no incentive to obey a law if there is no punishment for violating it,” a carrier source said Wed.: “A Supreme Court decision affirming that a state or local government is financially liable to pay money damages for improperly denying permission to construct a site for CMRS communications provides an incentive for zoning officials to properly apply the provisions of section 332(c)(7) of the Communications Act.”