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common carrier

NOUN
transport or telecommunications company
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As professor Eugene Volokh, one of the originators of the common carrier analogy, explains, what separates entities such as newspapers from entities such as phone companies is whether they produce a “coherent speech product.”

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2024

Oil trains would link from the proposed new Uinta Basin line to the common carrier network throughout the country, including through Colorado.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2023

We cannot stress this enough: No, an Ohio judge did not declare Google a common carrier this week.

From Washington Post ● May 26, 2022

Florida and Texas are both, to some extent, relying on the common carrier argument.

From The Verge ● Dec. 16, 2021

A common carrier is bound to receive from any person paying or tendering the freight charges, such goods as he is accustomed to carry, and as are offered for the place to which he carries.

From The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. by Andrew W. Young


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