S.F.’s cellphone radiation law draws suit
Enforcement of San Francisco's new cellphone radiation disclosure law should be blocked because it would usurp Federal Communications Commission regulatory authority, the CTIA-The Wireless Association argues in a federal lawsuit filed Friday.
The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco, challenges the "Cell Phone Right-to-Know" ordinance approved by the Board of Supervisors and signed by Mayor Gavin Newsom last month that requires cell phone retailers in San Francisco to post data about device radiation levels.
The CTIA's suit argues in court papers that the ordinance is unconstititutional because it "misleads consumers by creating the false impression that the FCC's standards are insufficient and that somephones are 'safer' than others based on their radio frequency emissions no fax cash advance."
A first of its kind in the nation, the ordinance requires labeling disclosing cell phone emission data already collected by the Federal Communications Commission, which prescribes that the amount of radio waves absorbed by cell phone users' skin must be under a specific level.
The CTIA earlier responded to approval of the ordinance by pulling future conventions out of San Francisco, which a Newsom spokesman called "spiteful," and an "overreaction" to a "modest" disclosure law.
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