NORTH AMERICAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASS'N v. F.C.C.

Nos. 84-2216, 84-2853 and 85-1425.

772 F.2d 1282 (1985)

NORTH AMERICAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents. New England Telephone and Telegraph Co., et al., Intervening Respondents. U.S. WEST, INC., Petitioner, and American Information Technologies Corporation, et al., Intervening Petitioners, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents. Rolm Corporation, et al., Intervening Respondents. U.S. WEST, INC., Petitioner, and American Information Technologies Corporation et al., Intervening Petitioners, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents. North American Telecommunications Association, et al., Intervening Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Submitted July 22, 1985.

Decided August 27, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Denise Bonn, Albert H. Kramer, on the brief, Wood, Lucksinger & Epstein, Washington, D.C., for North American Telecommunications Ass'n.

Robert B. McKenna, Washington, D.C., for U.S. West, Inc.

Linda L. Oliver, F.C.C., Washington, D.C., for respondents.

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


Argued (Nos. 84-2216, 84-2853) June 13, 1985.

Submitted (No. 85-1425) July 22, 1985.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Last summer, in Illinois Bell Tel. Co. v. FCC, 740 F.2d 465 (7th Cir.1984), we upheld an order by the Federal Communications Commission establishing conditions under which the Bell operating companies, having been divested from American Telephone and Telegraph Company as part of the settlement of the government...

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