High court to decide whether to hear wireless health case.(News)

RCR Wireless News, June, 2005

Byline: JEFFREY SILVA

The wireless health debate has landed in the lap of the U.S. Supreme Court.

The high court today plans to say whether it will accept the case of an advocacy group that sued unsuccessfully in lower court to force the Federal Communications Commission to study possible biological and environmental effects of cell-phone tower emissions. Last week, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal filed a friend-of- the-court brief supporting the EMR Network's petition for writ of certiori.

In mid-July, the mobile-phone industry plans to ask the Supreme Court to review a 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling remanding four class-action headset lawsuits to state courts in Georgia, Maryland, New York and...

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