NEW YORK TEL. CO. v. F.C.C.

No. 1137, Docket 80-4047.

631 F.2d 1059 (1980)

NEW YORK TELEPHONE COMPANY, Petitioner, New York State Public Service Commission and Rochester Telephone Corporation, Intervenors, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION and the United States of America, Respondents, Aeronautical Radio, Inc., General Electric Company, New York State Council of Retail Merchants, United States Transmission Systems, Inc., ITT-Domestic Transmission Systems, Inc., Southern Pacific Communications Company, Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 17, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Guy Miller Struve, New York City (James L. Kerr, Robert F. D'Emilia, Davis, Polk & Wardwell, George E. Ashley, Raymond F. Burke, John M. Clarke, New York City, on brief), for petitioner.

Charles R. Gibson, Albany, N.Y. (Peter H. Schiff, Albany, N.Y., on brief), for intervenor New York State Public Service Commission.

Michael T. Tomaino, Rochester, N.Y. (Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle, Rochester, N.Y., on brief), for intervenor Rochester Telephone Corporation.

Jack David Smith, Washington, D.C. (Robert R. Bruce, Gen. Counsel, Daniel M. Armstrong, Associate Gen. Counsel, F. C. C., Washington, D.C., Sanford M. Litvack, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert B. Nicholson, Peter L. Delacruz, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., on brief), for respondents.

Townley & Updike, New York City, Charles R. Cutler, John L. Bartlett, Michael Yourshaw, Rodney L. Joyce, John C. Smith, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington D.C., on brief, for intervenor Aeronautical Radio, Inc.

Joseph M. Kittner, Washington, D.C. (Virginia S. Carson, McKenna, Wilkinson & Kittner, Washington, D.C., Richard A. Fazzone, Schenectady, N.Y, on brief), for intervenors General Electric Company and New York State Council of Retail Merchants.

Grant S. Lewis, New York City (John S. Kinzey, Diane K. Newman, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, Joseph J. Jacobs, Peter M. Andersen, Randall B. Lowe, Howard G. Kristol, Robert L. Sills, Reboul, MacMurray, Hewitt, Maynard & Kristol, New York City, on brief), for intervenors United States Transmission Systems, Inc., ITT Domestic Transmission Systems, Inc., and Southern Pacific Communications Company.

Before OAKES and MESKILL, Circuit Judges, and NEAHER, District Judge.


OAKES, Circuit Judge:

New York Telephone Company (NYT), by this petition to review, seeks to overturn an order of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) asserting jurisdiction over local exchange service when used in connection with interstate foreign exchange (FX)1 and common control switching arrangement (CCSA)2 services. The order also required that any charges concerning the local distribution of FX...

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