April 2025 Trial Set on Allegations That Crown Castle Won’t Vacate Leased Property

U.S. District Judge Mark Norris for Western Tennessee in Memphis scheduled an April 2025 jury trial on plaintiff James Gragg’s allegations that Crown Castle has refused to vacate property he leased to the company to build a cell tower since the lease expired in April 2022 (see 2402090061), said a clerk’s notice of setting Friday (docket 2:24-cv-02087). Gragg seeks possession of his property, the restoration of his land and compensatory damages. Crown Castle admits only that it leased land in rural Tennessee from Gragg for “a period of years” to build and operate a cell tower, but denies Gragg’s remaining allegations that it refuses to surrender the premises and remove its structures (see 2403040008).