Following a bench trial in Superior Court (Delker, J.), the court denied the petition of the plaintiff, Celestica, LLC (Celestica), requesting a declaration that the defendant, Communications Acquisitions Corporation d/b/a Whaleback Managed Services (CAC), is obligated to pay the balance of a judgment that Celestica had obtained against another business, the assets of which CAC had purchased at pu

The telephone and data network in the United States is both terrestrial (land-based) and wireless, and is seamlessly interconnected through equipment called switches that are housed in so-called central offices scattered around the country. A single switch is comprised of “numerous computer processors, frames (sometimes called cabinets), shelves, drawers, circuit packs, cables, trunks and many ot

Chicago, IL - Naperville Engineer Sentenced to 12 1/2 Years in Prison for Cutting Communication Cables and Setting Fire to Air Traffic Control Center in Aurora

A Naperville engineer who severed critical communication cables at an air-traffic control center in Aurora – causing thousands of flight cancellations and delays throughout the country – was sentenced today to 12 ½ years in federal

AT&T, the taxpayer, is a global telecommunications company. It provides voice and data telecommunications services over the global AT&T network, which AT&T constructed, maintains, and operates. The network works together as an integrated whole, and it is used to provide all of AT&T’s services at issue. In the United States, the network provides multiple pathways that a call may take,
694 AT&T

The PUC is an agency created by the California Constitution to regulate privately owned public utilities such as PG&E. (Cal. Const., art. XII.)
PegaStaff is a division of PegaSoft Corporation, a California corporation, that provides temporary staffing in the fields of information technology and engineering. Mark Arshinkoff, a white male, owns 100 percent of PegaSoft stock.
For nine

Tribeca is a California limited liability company formed in October 2005 by William Faidi, its sole shareholder. It is a San Francisco-based private equity investment firm that makes investments in “distressed” real estate by purchasing and foreclosing on defaulted mortgage loans. Sky Pacific Holdings I, LLC (Sky Pacific) is another California limited liability company also formed by Faidi, who

Where a large musical-instrument retailer pressures
individual guitar manufacturers to set the lowest prices at
which the manufacturers will permit any retailer to advertise
the manufacturers’ products—and each manufacturer
acquiesces—can we infer the manufacturers conspired among
themselves to fix prices?
Plaintiffs ask us to answer this question in the affirmative.
Th

Former IRS agent Jorge Aviles asserts that he was fired in retaliation for protected whistleblowing. Aviles alleges that he uncovered that ExxonMobil Corporation (“Exxon”) had perpetrated a $500 million tax fraud and that IRS officials covered it up. Aviles claims he disclosed this information to his supervisors and that he was ultimately fired in retaliation for this protected disclosure in viola

Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, local exchange carriers such as Windstream Iowa Communications, Inc. (Windstream) must connect calls made to their customers by the customers of national telecommunications companies such as Sprint. Prior to 2009, Sprint paid Windstream state access charges for connecting nonnomadic intrastate long-distance VoIP calls—that is, calls made by cabletelephone

Our court previously remanded this case to the district court after reversing one of Matthew Simpson’s convictions.1 Simpson was resentenced and now appeals that sentence on several grounds, asserting, among other claims, that 18 U.S.C. § 3581(b)(3) imposes a statutory maximum sentence of twelve years for a Class C felony and that the district court accordingly erred in imposing 240 months of impr

Newark, NJ - U.S. Attorney’s Office Settles Americans With Disabilities Act Case With Linden, New Jersey-Based Electronics Store

The U.S. Attorney’s Office today reached an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) settlement with a Linden-based electronics store to ensure equal access for individuals with disabilities at its retail store, on the internet, and through telephone orders, U.S.

This case requires us to consider whether a person who listens to
and subsequently electronically records a conversation from an inadvertent “pocket-dial” call1
violates Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Street Act of 1968, 18 U.S.C. § 2510 et
seq. (Title III). James Huff inadvertently placed a pocket-dial call to Carol Spaw while he was
on a business trip in Italy. S

James Huff was Chairman of the Kenton County, Kentucky, Airport Board (Airport Board), which oversees the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG). In October 2013, he traveled to Bologna, Italy with his wife, Bertha Huff, and with Airport Board Vice Chairman Larry Savage to attend a business conference. Carol Spaw worked at CVG as Senior Executive Assistant to the airport’s CEO,

On November 3, 2009, Appellant was elected the seventy-first Governor of Virginia. From the outset, he made economic development and the promotion of Virginia businesses priorities of his administration. The economic downturn preceding the election had taken a personal toll on Appellant. Mobo Real Estate Partners LLC (“Mobo”), a business operated by Appellant and his sister, was losing money on

Rogue Valley Sewer Services (RVS) owns, operates, and manages equipment for the transmission of sewage. As a “sanitary authority” organized under ORS chapter 450, RVS is a type of local government entity called a local service district. See ORS 174.116(2)(r) (“[A]s used in the statutes of this state[,] ‘local service district’ [includes a] sanitary authority * * * organized under ORS 450.600 to 45

Following 31 years of service as a teacher in the public schools, Carol
Tibbles retired in April 1994. She is a member of the Teachers Retirement
System of Georgia, and as such, she is entitled by law to annual retirement
allowance in an amount
equal to 2 percent of [her] average compensation over the two consecutive years of membership service producing the highest such average, m

Over the course of five weeks of trial, federal prosecutors sought to prove that former Governor of Virginia Robert F. McDonnell (“Appellant”) and his wife, Maureen McDonnell, accepted money and lavish gifts in exchange for efforts to assist a Virginia company in securing state university testing of a dietary supplement the company had developed. The jury found Appellant guilty of eleven counts of

Defendant Jason Stephen Sigur appeals from a judgment of conviction following a jury trial. After meeting in an Internet chat room, defendant engaged in a sexual relationship with a thirteen-year-old girl for approximately two months, including in the home where the victim lived with her mother and grandmother after secretly entering through the victim’s bedroom window for that purpose. He was c

Dallas, TX - Aracell King, age 44, sued Time Warner Cable on a violation for violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 more than 73 times after she advise the Defendant not to call her any more. In total she received more thatn 153 robo calls to her Spring telephone line.

Recent Court Docket Entries:

Date Filed # Docket Text

06/04/2015 18 SCHEDULING OR

This is an appeal out of Ada County from a declaratory judgment holding that TracFone
is a telecommunication provider under Idaho Code section 31-4802(15)(d). We affirm that
judgment.

I.
Factual Background.
TracFone Wireless, Inc., is a non-facilities-based commercial mobile radio service
provider (a pure wireless reseller) that provides prepaid wireless telecommunicat

BOISE, ID - Helen Herold-Roden, 49, of Boise, Idaho, pleaded guilty to embezzlement and theft of labor union assets. Herold-Roden pleaded guilty pre-indictment to a one-count criminal information filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
According to the plea agreement, from 2002, until July 2014, Herold-Roden was the secretary-treasurer of the Communication Workers of America (CWA) Local Union

Phoenix, AZ - Paul Clabough, age 62, and Pamela Clabough sued the Arizona Department of Highways on a governmental tort claim theory claiming that they were injured and damaged when a room where Paul worked in an electronics room was flooded with sulfuric acid gas when batteries in the room overheated.

Paul, who worked for a contractor, was sent to the Arizona Highway Department facility

Tulsa, OK - Southwestern Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T Oklahoma sued the City of Tulsa on a negligence theory claiming:

1. The Plaintiff is a Missouri corporation licensed to do business in the State of Oklahoma.
2. ‘l’hc Defendant is a municipality entitled to all the protections afforded by the Governmental Tort Claims Act, (“OTCA�).
3. In all instances set forth her

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Sprint Communications, Inc., formerly Sprint Nextel Corporation, has agreed to pay the government $15.5 million to resolve allegations it defrauded federal law enforcement agencies when recovering its costs of carrying out court-ordered wiretaps, pen registers, and trap devices, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Inspect

DALLAS, TX — Milos Vujanic, 34, who was convicted for his role in what U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater previously called “a massive, complicated, multi-year scheme to defraud a large number of victims,� was sentenced this week to 48 months in federal prison and ordered to pay approximately $17.3 million in restitution. Acting U.S. Attorney John Parker, of the Northern District of Tex