{"id":30132,"date":"2016-09-13T19:17:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T02:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/court-questions-whether-berkeley-cell-phone-law-goes-too-far"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:16:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:16:04","slug":"court-questions-whether-berkeley-cell-phone-law-goes-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/court-questions-whether-berkeley-cell-phone-law-goes-too-far","title":{"rendered":"Court questions whether Berkeley cell phone law goes too far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/court-questions-whether-berkeley-cell-phone-law-goes-too-far.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A federal appeals court questioned during a hearing Tuesday whether the city of Berkeley is unduly discouraging customers from buying cell phones by requiring retailers to warn them about the possible radiation effects of carrying switched-on phones close to their bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Berkeley\u2019s ordinance, challenged by the cell phone industry, requires dealers to notify customers that the federal government sets radiation standards for the phones and that a user may be exposed to levels above those standards by carrying a cell phone in a pocket or tucked into a bra when the device is connected to a wireless network.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/search\/?action=search&channel=bayarea&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Edward+Chen%22\">Edward Chen<\/a> of San Francisco allowed the law to take effect in January, saying the warning was based on research and guidelines by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/search\/?action=search&channel=bayarea&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Federal+Communications+Commission%22\">Federal Communications Commission<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/Court-questions-whether-Berkeley-cell-phone-law-9220529.php\">http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/Court-questions-whethe...220529.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals court questioned during a hearing Tuesday whether the city of Berkeley is unduly discouraging customers from buying cell phones by requiring retailers to warn them about the possible radiation effects of carrying switched-on phones close to their bodies. Berkeley\u2019s ordinance, challenged by the cell phone industry, requires dealers to notify customers that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1496,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-law","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66252,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30132\/revisions\/66252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}