For more than 35 years, the firm has represented clients in the communications industry, including cable television companies, broadcasters, communications common carriers and cable television and cellphone subscribers.

The firm has represented cable television companies in cases raising significant issues under the federal and state antitrust laws and provisions of constitutional and communications law. The firm’s efforts in these areas have resulted in a substantial number of important published decisions, including two favorable rulings from the United States Supreme Court -- Community Communications v. City of Boulder, 455 U.S. 40 (1982) and City of Los Angeles v. Preferred Communications, 476 U.S. 488 (1986). See also Preferred Communications v. City of Los Angeles, 13 F.3d 1327 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 114 S.Ct. 2738 (1994); Nor-West Cable Communications Partnership v. City of St. Paul, 924 F.2d 741 (8th Cir.), cert. denied, 501 U.S. 1231 (1991); Telecommunications of Key West, Inc. v. United States, 757 F.2d 1330 (D.C. Cir. 1985); Engel v. Teleprompter Corp., 732 F.2d 1238 (5th Cir. 1984) and 703 F.2d 12 (5th Cir. 1983); City of Alameda v. Premiere Communications Network, Inc., 156 Cal.App.3d 148 (1984).

The firm has also represented various communications providers and others in administrative proceedings before the Federal Communications and the California Public Utilities Commission, in the appellate courts on appeals from orders of such administrative agencies, and in court cases to enforce administrative agency orders.

Recently, the firm has represented a cable television company in a dispute with a municipal utility district over access to utility poles; has represented a communications common carrier in a dispute arising from the purchase of certain communications channels; has represented a class of cable television subscribers in litigation against a company that formerly provided cable television; and is representing the interests of cellphone subscribers in a group of court cases challenging allegedly unlawful practices by certain cellphone providers and manufacturers.