AT&T for more than a year has been trying to place a 150-foot-tall cell tower with accompanying communications electronics on a 40-by-40-foot fenced lease area on a five-acre parcel of land in Lane County in western Oregon to provide and improve local wireless services, but the county has violated the Telecommunications Act by denying approval of the proposed facility, alleged AT&T in a complaint Tuesday (docket 6:22-cv-01635) in U.S. District Court for Oregon in Eugene.

The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:

A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision Thursday in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act case Wakefield v. ViSalus (docket 21-35201) could lead to smaller verdicts in a variety of such lawsuits because it affirms that lower courts should analyze and reduce damage awards that are “unconstitutionally excessive.”

The Wireless ISP Association asked the FCC to expand the new enhanced competition incentive program (ECIP) to include WISPs and other providers not classified as common carriers, in comments posted through Friday in docket 19-38. Commissioners approved the program in July (see 2207140055), and the rules formally took effect Thursday, but commissioners also asked follow-up questions in a Further NPRM. The order was approved in response to provisions in the Mobile Now Act, which became law in 2018 (see 2203310036).

Paid account sharing could bring Netflix 15 million additional U.S. and Canadian paid sharers and a million new members, Cowen analyst John Blackledge wrote investors Wednesday, after its Tuesday announcement it will begin rolling out its Profile Transfer globally early next year to more broadly monetize account sharing.

The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:

The State Department is seeking public comments on steps it can take to combat international deforestation, including by removing commodities grown on deforested lands from agricultural supply chains. The agency hopes the recommendations lead to proposed legislation as it looks to implement an executive order on strengthening the U.S.’s forests. Comments, requested this week, are due Dec. 2.

The State Department is seeking public comments on steps it can take to combat international deforestation, including by removing commodities grown on deforested lands from agricultural supply chains. The agency hopes the recommendations lead to proposed legislation as it looks to implement an executive order on strengthening the U.S.’s forests. Comments, requested this week, are due Dec. 2.

If Congress passes the House Commerce Committee’s bipartisan privacy bill, it would need to double the FTC’s budget for the agency to meet the new law’s requirements, FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter said Thursday.

The village of Muttontown, New York, asked for a two-week deadline extension to Oct. 26 to answer a complaint that the municipality dragged its feet on AT&T's application to remedy a service gap, per a letter motion filed Tuesday (docket 2:22-cv-5524) at the U.S. District Court in Central Islip, New York. AT&T consented to the delay, according to a stipulation attached to the letter motion. U.S. Magistrate Judge Lee Dunst granted the motion Thursday.