NATIONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, INC. v. MICHIGAN PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

No. 85-1159.

789 F.2d 370 (1986)

NATIONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, INC., A Michigan Corporation; Victor E. Shapley, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MICHIGAN PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, a Commission of the State of Michigan; Eric J. Schneidewind; Daniel Demlow; Robert Fischer and Gerald Irwin, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided April 25, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leo H. Friedman, Frank J. Kelley, Don L. Keskey, Lead Counsel, Lansing, Mich., Louis J. Caruso, Robert P. Brown (argued), for defendants-appellees.

Brian M. Kennedy, Bay City, Mich., Mandel I. Allweil (argued), Bay City, Mich., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Before MERRITT and WELLFORD, Circuit Judges, and PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.


MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs-appellants Victor E. Shapley and National Communications Systems, Inc. appeal the District Court's order dismissing their civil rights action. We affirm.

I.

In March 1975, plaintiff Shapley formed plaintiff National Communications Systems, Inc. as a Michigan corporation. Shapley entered into an agreement with the owner of Mesick and Northern Telephone companies, two small telephone companies operating in Michigan...

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