Chicago Judge Grants Ill. City Partial Summary Judgment Over Verizon

U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer for Northern Illinois in Chicago granted summary judgment for Geneva, Illinois, over Verizon, finding that substantial evidence supported the city’s denial of Verizon’s applications to build a cell tower on a Geneva parcel of land called the Oscar Swan, said her signed memorandum opinion and order Wednesday (docket 1:22-cv-04151). There remain “material factual disputes” concerning whether the city’s denials materially inhibited Verizon from providing telecommunications services, in violation of the Telecommunications Act, as Verizon alleged. She thus denied both parties’ motions for summary judgment on the material inhibition claims.