City of Rancho Palos Verdes v. Abrams

Rancho Palos Verdes v. Abrams
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 19, 2005 Decided March 22, 2005
Full case name	City of Rancho Palos Verdes v. Abrams
Docket no.	03-1601
Citations	544 U.S. 113 (more) 125 S. Ct. 1453; 161 L. Ed. 2d 316
Case history
Prior	Abrams v. City of Rancho Palos Verdes, 354 F.3d 1094 (9th Cir. 2004); cert. granted, 542 U.S. 965 (2004).
Subsequent	On remand, 406 F.3d 1094 (9th Cir. 2005).
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Scalia, joined by Rehnquist, O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer
Concurrence	Breyer, joined by O'Connor, Souter, Ginsburg
Concurrence	Stevens (in judgment)
Laws applied
42 U.S.C. § 1983, Telecommunications Act

City of Rancho Palos Verdes v. Abrams, 544 U.S. 113 (2005), is a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that the Telecommunications Act (TCA) precluded damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983^[1] because it provided a comprehensive remedial scheme. Rancho Palos Verdes v. Abrams is a part of the Sea Clammers Doctrine line of cases.^[2]