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MCI TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. v. PUB. UTIL. COMM.

No. 86-861.

32 Ohio St. 3d 306 (1987)

MCI TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION, APPELLANT, v. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF OHIO ET AL., APPELLEES.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided September 9, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chester, Hoffman & Willcox, Clifford O. Arnebeck, Jr., Donald C. Brey, Mark J. Palmer and Stephanie M. Pestello, for appellant.

Anthony J. Celebrezze, Jr., attorney general, Robert S. Tongren, Frank P. Darr and Anne E. Henkener, for appellee.

Donald McG. Rose and Mark H. Longenecker, Jr., for intervening appellee Cincinnati Bell Telephone Co.

Donald W. Morrison and Charles S. Rawlings, for intervening appellee Ohio Bell Telephone Co.

Ellen A. D'Amato for intervening appellee United Telephone Co. of Ohio.

Bruce Kazee, urging affirmance for amicus curiae, General Telephone Co. of Ohio.

Schneider, Prohaska & Sams and J. Raymond Prohaska, urging affirmance for amicus curiae, Ohio Telephone Association.

Per Curiam.

The scope of our review of PUCO orders is set forth in R.C. 4903.13, which states in pertinent part:

"A final order made by the public utilities commission shall be reversed, vacated, or modified by the supreme court on appeal, if, upon consideration of the record, such court is of the opinion that such order was unlawful or unreasonable. * * *"

Under the "unlawful or unreasonable" standard specified in R.C. 4903.13, we will not...

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