This Week At The Ninth: Sham Phone Operations and E-Cigarettes

This week, the Court addresses the FCC’s adjudicatory authority and considers the scope of specific personal jurisdiction in product-liability suits. The Court holds that the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) did not exceed its authority in finding that a telephone company acted unlawfully by restructuring its business operations to continue imposing charges that were otherwise prohibited by the agency’s rules….
By: Morrison & Foerster LLP – Left Coast Appeals