47 U.S.C. § 414
Section 414 · Exclusiveness of chapter
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 122 court decisions — leading case American Telephone and Telegraph Company, v. Central Office Telephone, Inc. (1998)
Most recently applied in New York State Telecommunications Association, Inc. v. James (April 2024)
Cases citing this section usually also cite 47 U.S.C. § 151 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 47 U.S.C. § 203
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Nothing in this chapter contained shall in any way abridge or alter the remedies now existing at common law or by statute, but the provisions of this chapter are in addition to such remedies.
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References in Text
This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning act June 19, 1934, ch. 652, 48 Stat. 1064, as amended, known as the Communications Act of 1934, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 609 of this title and Tables.