T-Mobile South, LLC v. City of Roswell

T-Mobile South, LLC v. City of Roswell
Decided January 14, 2015
Full case nameT-Mobile South, LLC v. City of Roswell
Citations574 U.S. 293 (more)
Holding
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 requires a locality that denies an application to build cell phone tower to state its reasons for denial with sufficient clarity in a written record issued essentially contemporaneously with the denial.
Court membership
Chief Justice
John Roberts
Associate Justices
Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy
Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito
Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinions
MajoritySotomayor
DissentRoberts, joined by Ginsberg; Thomas (Part I only)
DissentThomas
Laws applied
Telecommunications Act of 1996

T-Mobile South, LLC v. City of Roswell, 574 U.S. 293 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 requires a locality that denies an application to build cell-phone tower to state its reasons for denial with sufficient clarity in a written record issued essentially contemporaneously with the denial.