GTE SPRINT COMMUNICATIONS CORP. v. DOWNEY

Civ. No. H-85-974(AHN).

628 F.Supp. 193 (1986)

GTE SPRINT COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION, and MCI Telecommunications Corporation v. John T. DOWNEY, individually and in his capacity as Chairman of the Department of Public Utility Control of the State of Connecticut; Peter G. Boucher, Marvin S. Loewith, Edythe J. Gaines, and David J. Harrigan, each individually and in his or her capacity as a Commissioner of the Department of Public Utility and Control of the State of Connecticut; Joseph Lieberman, individually and in his capacity as Attorney General of the State of Connecticut; Southern New England Telephone Company; and New York Telephone Company.

United States District Court, D. Connecticut.

February 24, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles L. Howard, Thomas M. Bounty, Shipman & Goodwin, Hartford, Conn., Robert L. Sills, Reboul, MacMurray, Hewitt, Maynard & Kristol, New York City, Brad W. Mutchelkanus, Phyllis A. Whitten, GTE Sprint Communications Corp., Washington, D.C., for GTE Sprint Communications Corp.

Robert Golden, Jr., Phyllis E. Lemell, Asst. Attys. Gen., New Britain, Conn., for Downey, Boucher, Loewith, Gaines, Harrigan & Lieberman.

Robert K. Cuilla, Tyler, Cooper & Alcorn, James B. Curtin, Gen. Counsel, New Haven, Conn., for Southern New England Telephone.

Timothy S. Fisher, Robinson & Cole, Hartford, Conn., Henry D. Levine, Morrison & Foerster, Washington, D.C., for MCI Telecommunications Corp.

John E. Reilly, New York Telephone Co., New York City, Marjorie J. Berger, Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, P.C., Hartford, Conn., for New York Telephone.


RULING AND ORDER

NEVAS, District Judge.

This action for injunctive and declaratory relief concerns a recently enacted Connecticut public act entitled "An Act Preserving Universal Telephone Service in Connecticut" ("Act"), and a decision by the State of Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control (the "DPUC") implementing the Act.1 GTE Sprint Communications Corporation ("Sprint...

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