BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA v. F. C. C.

No. 74-1386.

503 F.2d 1250 (1974)

The BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Petitioners, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION and The United States of America, Respondents, MCI Telecommunications Corporation and MCI-New York West, Inc., et al., Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided September 11, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irving R. Segal, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, John B. King, Philadelphia, Pa., Charles A. Horsky, Michael Boudin, E. Edward Bruce, Charles E. Lister, Washington, D. C.

Charles Ryan, Alfred C. Partoll, Harold S. Levy, New York City, for petitioners; F. Mark Garlinghouse, New York City, of counsel.

Thomas E. Kauper, Asst. Atty. Gen., Carl D. Lawson, Seymour H. Dussman, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Ashton R. Hardy, Gen. Counsel, Joseph A. Marino, Associate Gen. Counsel, Philip V. Permut, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D. C., for respondents.

Michael L. Glaser, Francis E. Fletcher, Jr., Glaser & Fletcher, P. C., Washington, D. C., James T. Roche, Vienna, Va., for intervenor, Data Transmission Co.; John M. Scorce, Vienna, Va., of counsel.

Wm. Warfield Ross, William R. Weissman, C. Coleman Bird, Wald, Harkrader & Ross, Jack Werner, Laurence Singer, Washington, D. C., for intervenor, The Western Union Telegraph Co.; Richard C. Hostetler, Upper Saddle River, N. J., of counsel.

Max L. Lieberman, Pelino, Wasserstrom, Chucas & Monteverde, Philadelphia, Pa., for intervenor, N-Triple-C, Inc.

Thormund A. Miller, Richard S. Kopf, San Francisco, Cal., Herbert E. Forrest, Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, D. C., for intervenor, Southern Pacific Communications Co.

W. Theodore Pierson, Jr., Mark J. Tauber, Washington, D. C., for intervenor, CML Satellite Corp.; Marvin R. Jawer, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Harry M. Plotkin, Gary M. Epstein, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, Michael H. Bader, Kenneth A. Cox, William J. Byrnes, Haley, Bader & Potts, Washington, D. C., for intervenors, MCI Telecommunications Corp. and MCI-New York West, Inc., John R. Worthington, Kaye L. O'Riordan, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

John D. Jackson, David A. Irwin, Germantown, Md., for intervenor, American Satellite Corp.

Richard H. Strodel, Wheeler & Wheeler, Washington, D. C., for intervenor, Western Tele-Communications, Inc.

Jay E. Ricks, Robert R. Bruce, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, D. C., for intervenor, CPI Microwave, Inc.

Thomas J. O'Reilly, Washington, D. C., for intervenor, United States Independent Telephone Association; Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Alan Y. Naftalin, Koteen & Burt, Washington, D. C., Francis J. DeRosa, New York City, for intervenor, RCA Global Communications, Inc.

Before HASTIE, WEIS and GARTH, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

GARTH, Circuit Judge.

Petitioners Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania and American Telephone and Telegraph Company call upon us to review1 an order of the Federal Communications Commission dated April 23, 1974 (FCC Docket No. 19896).2 The order, relevant portions of which are found in the appendix to this opinion, essentially requires the petitioners to provide certain communications...

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