FTC COMMUNICATIONS, INC. v. F.C.C.

No. 187, Docket 83-4217.

750 F.2d 226 (1984)

FTC COMMUNICATIONS, INC., RCA Global Communications, Inc. and Western Union International, Inc., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents, ITT World Communications Inc., TRT Telecommunications Corp. and the Western Union Telegraph Company, Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 17, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Kinzey, Jr., New York City (Grant S. Lewis, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, New York City, Peter M. Andersen, Secaucus, N.J., for intervenor ITT; Roger P. Newell, New York City, for petitioner FTC; Francis J. DeRosa, New York City, for petitioner RCA; Roderick M. Mette, Washington, D.C., for intervenor TRT; Robert Michelson, Washington, D.C., for petitioner Western Union Int'l, of counsel), for petitioners and supporting intervenors.

John E. Ingle, Deputy Associate Gen. Counsel, FCC, Washington, D.C. (Bruce E. Fein, Gen. Counsel, Daniel M. Armstrong, Associate Gen. Counsel, Carl D. Lawson, Jane E. Mago, FCC, J. Paul McGrath, Asst. Atty. Gen., John J. Powers, III, Margaret G. Halpern, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for respondents.

Edward Berlin, Washington, D.C. (Thomas M. Lemberg, Swidler, Berlin & Strelow, Joel Yohalem, H. Richard Juhnke, Arthur H. Simms, Peter G. Wolfe, The Western Union Telegraph Co., Washington, D.C., of counsel), for intervenor The Western Union Telegraph Co.

Before: MANSFIELD, MESKILL and KEARSE, Circuit Judges.


MESKILL, Circuit Judge:

Petitioners FTC Communications Inc., RCA Global Communications, Inc., Western Union International, Inc. and intervenors ITT World Communications Inc. and TRT Telecommunications Corporation (collectively the IRCs) petition for review of a final decision of the Federal Communications Commission (Commission), In re The Western Union Telegraph Co., 95 F.C.C.2d 881 (1983) (Final Decision). The Final Decision set aside the initial...

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