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ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE CO. v. F.C.C.

Nos. 84-1145, 84-1382 and 84-1475.

740 F.2d 465 (1984)

ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, Wisconsin Bell, New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, New York Telephone Company, and Nynex Corporation, Petitioners, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents. Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company, et al., Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 29, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred Winchell Whittaker, Kirkland & Ellis, Raymond F. Scully, Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish & Kauffman, Washington, D.C., for petitioners.

John E. Ingle, Deputy Assoc. Gen. Counsel, F.C.C., Mary Jo Manning, Wilkes, Artis, Hedrick & Lane, Chtd., Washington, D.C., for respondents.

Before BAUER and POSNER, Circuit Judges, and SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

A number of telephone companies formerly owned by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and still known as the Bell operating companies, have petitioned us under 28 U.S.C. § 2342(1) (which vests the courts of appeals with exclusive jurisdiction to review certain orders issued by the Federal Communications Commission, see 47 U.S.C. § 402(a), including orders promulgating rules, see Columbia Broadcasting System v. United States...

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