In Hlavinka v. HSC Pipeline P’ship, LLC, a Texas court denied a pipeline company’s claim that it is a common carrier with the power of eminent domain. The Hlavinkas own 15,000+acres in Brazoria County ...

An organization that provides telecommunications services. A private carrier may refuse to sell its services to a particular party, whereas a "common carrier" is obligated to treat all customers ...

A federal judge squashed AT&T's attempt to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it by the FTC. The FTC sued AT&T in October over throttling policies for "unlimited data" customers. Despite offering ...

(The Center Square) – Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is continuing his fight to declare Google a common carrier despite a judge ruling otherwise. Yost appealed a Delaware County judge’s decision to ...

Last month, in Rinky Dink, Inc. v. Electronic Merchant Systems, et al., No 13-cv-01347, 2015 WL 778065 (W.D. Wash. Feb. 24, 2015), online voice and text provider CallFire became one of the first (if ...

In recent weeks, the case for imposing "common carrier" restrictions on major social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook has gathered steam on the political right. Supreme Court Justice ...

“Hillbilly Elegy” author J.D. Vance is weighing in against Google in lawsuit seeking to have the company declared a "common carrier." “The Supreme Court declared the internet is our 'modern public ...

A digital transmission service from a common carrier. Although developed in the 1960s and used internally, AT&T introduced it as a communications product to the public in 1983. Initially used for ...

Michael L. Slack, managing partner of Slack Davis Sanger L.L.P. Since 1993, the Texas Supreme Court's decision in Boyles v. Kerr has held steadfast for the proposition that there is no cause of action ...

Just published at 2 J. Free Speech L. 127 (2022), as part of the "Non-Governmental Restrictions on Free Speech" symposium; here's the Abstract: In a recent opinion respecting denial of certiorari, ...

Siding with Google, a judge in Ohio has dismissed the state attorney general's claim that the company unlawfully preferences its own products and services in the search results. The ruling came in a ...