ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE CO. v. ILL. COMMERCE COM'N

No. 83-2421.

740 F.2d 566 (1984)

ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ILLINOIS COMMERCE COMMISSION, Philip R. O'Connor, Andrew Barrett, Daniel Rosenblum, Charles Stalon and Ruth Kretschmer, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 27, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. King Poor, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Henry L. Mason, III, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Before WOOD and FLAUM, Circuit Judges, and SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge.


FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

The district court in this case granted a preliminary injunction ordering appellant Illinois Commerce Commission (Commission) both to conform to an order of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and to allow appellee Illinois Bell Telephone Company to place into effect a rate increase for intrastate service. This appeal raises two issues: whether the district court should have stayed its proceedings pending the outcome of a state court...

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