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FREEMAN v. BURLINGTON BROADCASTERS, INC.

Docket No. 97-9141.

204 F.3d 311 (2000)

Graeme FREEMAN, Mary Beth Freeman, Frank Ittleman, Elaine Ittleman, Mike Fournier, Holly Fournier, Ellen Lane, William Pinney, Jr., Mark W. Bolles, Claudia Mucklow, Donna A. Wark, Iris Muggenthaler, James H. Squires, Lawrence Hamilton, Robert Carmody, Mark Musiel, Michael Yantachka, Lorie Gadboury, Chris McGee, Peter Coleman, Barbara Sanford Farrell, and William Pinney, Sr., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BURLINGTON BROADCASTERS, INC., d/b/a WIZN, Charlotte Fire & Rescue Services, Inc., and NYNEX Mobile Limited Partnership 1, d/b/a Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided February 23, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald R. Tarrant, Tarrant, Marks & Gillies, Montpelier, VT, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Brian J. Sullivan, Burak Anderson & Melloni, Burlington, VT, for defendant-appellee NYNEX Mobile Limited Partnership 1.

John P. Cain, McCormick, Fitzpatrick, Kasper & Burchard, Burlington, VT, for defendant-appellee Burlington Broadcasters, Inc.

(Senator Patrick Leahy, Senator James Jeffords, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., Congressman Bernie Sanders, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. submitted a brief for amici curiae in support of plaintiffs-appellants.)

(Christopher J. Wright, Gen. Counsel, Daniel M. Armstrong, Assoc. Gen. Counsel, Joel Marcus, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D.C.; Joel I. Klein, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert B. Nicholson, Marion L. Jetton, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., submitted a brief for amicus curiae Federal Communications Commission.)

Before: NEWMAN, WALKER and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal raises a preemption issue pitting federal authority in the field of radio communications against local zoning authority. The precise issue is whether the Federal Communications Act of 1934, as amended (FCA), and regulations promulgated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) preempt a local zoning board's power to enforce a condition of a permit to construct and use a communications tower; the permit condition requires...

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