SAN FRANCISCO-A citizens group plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a recent federal appeals court decision upholding the Federal Communications Commission’s mobile-phone radiation safety standard.
The Ad Hoc Association of Parties Concerned about FCC Radio-frequency Radiation and Health and Safety rules has retained lawyer Whitney North Seymour Jr. on a pro bono basis for the Supreme Court appeal.
Seymour, whose law firm is based in New York, is a former U.S. attorney and founder of the National Resources Defense Council. He specializes in health care, administrative and constitutional law.
The Ad Hoc Association said it will argue, among other things, that federal RF exposure guidelines violate state rights under the 10th Amendment. A judge on a Fourth Circuit appeals court panel recently used the 10th Amendment as the basis for ruling against 360
