WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court today declined to review a federal appeals court ruling that voided a Minnesota wireless consumer protection law.
Minnesota Attorney General Mike Hatch (D), who is running for governor, asked the Supreme Court to take the case after the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals turned back a new Minnesota law that was to have gone into effect Jan. 1. The law would have required cellular carriers to give subscribers 60 days written notice of proposed contract changes.
That the Supreme Court declined to review the federal appeals court ruling stands as a victory for the wireless industry.
Today’s Supreme Court action comes as the mobile-phone industry and Federal Communications Commission decide whether to ask the high court to review an 11th Circuit decision overturning a Federal Communications Commission decision pre-empting state regulation of line items on mobile-phone bills.
