San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee approved a settlement...
San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee approved a settlement last week in CTIA v. City and County of San Francisco, said law firm Wiley Rein (http://bit.ly/10QlYDE). It represents CTIA and called the settlement another win in “a series of significant court…
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victories” over the last three years. The case involved San Francisco’s cellphone right-to-know ordinance, designed to inform people of alleged risks of mobile phones. San Francisco officials are ending the ordinance as part of the settlement, the law firm said. A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel, located in San Francisco, sided with CTIA last fall, and the city’s call for a rehearing en banc was denied this February, it said. The Environmental Working Group slammed this then-pending settlement May 6 (http://bit.ly/10gOqBP): “EWG has been a strong supporter of this groundbreaking ordinance from day one and worked with the city on its implementation,” said Research Director Renee Sharp in a statement. “We are disappointed that residents of San Francisco will not have access to important public health information about radiation emissions from wireless devices at the point of sale. We strongly believe consumers have the right to know about the potential health effects of cell phone radiation and how they can reduce their exposures.” Wiley Rein called these fears “unfounded.”