Nixon v. Missouri Municipal League

Citation: Nixon v. Missouri Municipal League,, 541 U.S. 125 (2004).

The U.S. Supreme Court held that a provision of the 1996 amendment to the Communications Act of 1934 authorizing the preemption of state and local laws prohibiting “any entity” from providing a statutorily defined “telecommunications service” did not preempt state statutes that bar political subdivisions from doing so. The Court noted, however, that “in any event the issue here does not turn on the merits of municipal telecommunications services.”