ATHENS CELLULAR, INC. v. OCONEE COUNTY, GEORGIA

No. 15-12067.

886 F.3d 1094 (2018)

ATHENS CELLULAR, INC., d.b.a. Verizon Wireless, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. OCONEE COUNTY, GEORGIA, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 2, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles F. Palmer , William Middleton Droze , Brian P. Watt , Troutman Sanders, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Thomas M. Mitchell , Regina Benton Reid , Carothers & Mitchell, LLC, Buford, GA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before TJOFLAT and ROSENBAUM, Circuit Judges, and KAPLAN, District Judge.


Congress enacted the Telecommunications Act of 1996 ("the TCA") to "promote competition and higher quality in American telecommunications services [and] encourage the rapid deployment of new telecommunications technologies" by, among other things, "reduc[ing] impediments imposed by local governments" to the installation of...

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