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AT&T Corp. v. City of Portland

United States District Court for the District of Oregon

43 F. Supp. 2d 1146 (D. Or. 1999)

Constitutional Law
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AT&T's (plaintiff) exclusive contract with @Home threatened to drive local internet service providers out of the market, prompting Portland's Cable Commission (defendant) to require AT&T to grant paying access to unaffiliated ISPs on its cable-modem platform; AT&T sued, arguing the open-access mandate violated its First Amendment rights.

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Whether an open-access law forcing a cable company to allow all Internet service providers access to the company's cable-modem platform violates the company's First Amendment rights.

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