Court Opinion

ID: 8409193
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-02 16:53:33.331352+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:47:39.585653
License: Public Domain

FERGUSON, Circuit Judge,
concurring specially:
I concur to remand this case to District Court for additional consideration as to whether each individual city ordinance at issue is preempted by § 253 of the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996(FTA). In so doing, however, the District Court must consider whether the Cities’ ordinances in whole or in part survive preemption under the safe harbor provisions of the FTA, particularly § 253(c). See City of Auburn v. Qwest, 260 F.3d 1160, 1177 (9th Cir.2001). The District Court must also deter7 mine whether individual provisions of a particular city ordinance that might be found to be preempted by § 253 of the FTA can be severed from the remaining provisions of the ordinance that might not be found to be preempted. See Auburn, 260 F.3d at 1180.