HUSH-A-PHONE CORPORATION v. UNITED STATES

No. 13175.

238 F.2d 266 (1956)

HUSH-A-PHONE CORPORATION and Harry C. Tuttle, Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES of America and Federal Communications Commission, Respondents, American Telephone and Telegraph Company et al., and United States Independent Telephone Association, Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided November 8, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Herbert J. Miller, Jr., Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Kelley E. Griffith, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for petitioners.

Mr. Richard A. Solomon, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, with whom Mr. Warren E. Baker, Gen. Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, was on the brief, for respondent Federal Communications Commission. Mr. J. Smith Henley, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, entered an appearance for respondent Federal Communications Commission, and Mr. Daniel M. Friedman, Atty., Department of Justice, entered an appearance for respondent United States.

Mr. Hugh B. Cox, Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Burke Marshall, Washington, D. C., and Edmund S. Hawley, New York City, were on the brief, for intervenors American Tel. & Tel. Co. and others. Mr. Ernest Jennes also entered an appearance for intervenors American Tel. & Tel. Co. et al.

Mr. Bradford Ross, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Richard S. T. Marsh, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for intervenor United States Independent Tel. Ass'n.

Before EDGERTON, Chief Judge, and WILBUR K. MILLER and BAZELON, Circuit Judges.


BAZELON, Circuit Judge.

This is a petition under § 402(a) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended,1 for review of a Federal Communications Commission order of December 21, 1955, dismissing the complaint which the petitioners had filed against the intervenors. The petitioners are the Hush-A-Phone Corporation and its president. The intervenors are the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, the twenty-one associated companies...

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