T-Mobile South, LLC v. City of Roswell
| T-Mobile South, LLC v. City of Roswell | |
|---|---|
| Decided January 14, 2015 | |
| Full case name | T-Mobile South, LLC v. City of Roswell |
| Citations | 574 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 | |
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| Case opinions | |
| Majority | Sotomayor |
| Dissent | Roberts, joined by Ginsberg; Thomas (Part I only) |
| Dissent | Thomas |
| 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.