GLOBAL TOWER ASSETS, LLC v. TOWN OF ROME

No. 15-1140.

810 F.3d 77 (2016)

GLOBAL TOWER ASSETS, LLC; Northeast Wireless Networks, LLC, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. TOWN OF ROME; Rome Planning Board, Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

January 8, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erica M. Johanson, with whom Neal F. Pratt, Jonathan A. Pottle, and Eaton Peabody, were on brief, for appellants.

Theodore Small, with whom Issacson & Raymond, P.A. was on brief, for appellees.

Before BARRON, SELYA, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.


The Telecommunications Act of 1996 ("TCA") provides relief to those who are denied permission to build telecommunications facilities at the state or local level. The TCA makes such relief available if state or local land use authorities have denied such permission through "final action." The TCA, however, does not define what...

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