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INTERN. SCIENCE & TECH. INSTITUTE v. INACOM COMM.

No. 96-1142.

106 F.3d 1146 (1997)

INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE, INCORPORATED, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. INACOM COMMUNICATIONS, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 11, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: John Thomas Ward, Ward, Kershaw & Minton, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellant. John Patrick Passarelli, McGrath, North, Mullin & Kratz, P.C., Omaha, Nebraska, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Thomas J. Minton, Ward, Kershaw & Minton, Baltimore, Maryland; Mark Rollinson, Leesburg, Virginia, for Appellant. Patrick E. Brookhouser, Jr., McGrath, North, Mullin & Kratz, P.C., Omaha, Nebraska; Scott A. Fenske, Thompson, Hine & Flory, Washington, DC, for Appellee.

Before NIEMEYER, WILLIAMS, and MOTZ, Circuit Judges.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Judge WILLIAMS and Judge MOTZ joined.

OPINION

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:

We today reach the somewhat unusual conclusion that state courts have exclusive jurisdiction over a cause of action created by federal law. Holding that the states have been given, subject to their consent, exclusive subject matter jurisdiction over private actions authorized by the Telephone Consumer Protection...

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