Case Status

SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE v. MO MUNICIPAL LEAGUE, ET AL. (39790)

    Order dated: 08/25/03
    Docket number: 02-1405
    Action:
        the joint appendix is granted.

SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE v. MO MUNICIPAL LEAGUE, ET AL. (39790)

    Order dated: 11/17/03
    Docket number: 02-1405
    Action:
        granted.

A description of the questions presented by the case has been prepared:

Whether 47 U.S.C. 253(a), which provides that "[n]o State ... regulation ... may prohibit ... the ability of any entity to provide any interstate or intrastate telecommunications service," preempts a state law prohibiting political subdivisions of the state from offering telecommunications service to the public?