STATE of North Carolina ex rel. UTILITIES COMMISSION; and MCI Telecommunications Corporation
v.
The PUBLIC STAFF; Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company; Central Telephone Company; Alltel Carolina, Inc.; General Telephone Company of the Southeast; Carolina Telephone Company; Telecommunications Systems, Inc.; Carolina Utility Customers Association; North Carolina Long Distance Association; AT & T Communications of the Southern States, Inc.; and U.S. Sprint Communications Company.
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March 15, 1988.
March 15, 1988.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Adams, McCullough & Beard by Charles C. Meeker and Gary S. Maines, Raleigh, David Baumann, Div. Counsel for MCI, Atlanta, Ga., for MCI Telecommunications Corp.
Public Staff Executive Director Robert P. Gruber by Chief Counsel Antoinette R. Wike, Vickie L. Moir and Paul Lassiter, Staff Attys., Raleigh, for North Carolina Utilities Com'n, appellee.
J. Billie Ray, Jr., Gen. Atty., Southern Bell Tel. and Tel., Charlotte, and R. Douglas Lackey, Legal Dept., Southern Bell Tel. and Tel. Co., Atlanta, Ga., and Edward L. Rankin III, Legal Dept., Southern Bell Tel. and Tel. Co., Charlotte, Hunton & Williams by Edward S. Finley, Jr., and Frank A. Schiller, Raleigh, for Southern Bell Tel. and Tel. Co.
James M. Kimzey, McMillan, Kimzey, Smith & Roten, Raleigh, for Central Telephone Co.
F. Kent Burns, Burns, Day & Presnell, Raleigh, for Continental Telephone Co. of North Carolina, Inc., and ALLTEL Carolina, Inc.
Wayne L. Goodrum, Associate Gen. Counsel, General Telephone Co. of the South, Durham, for General Telephone Co. of the South.
Dwight W. Allen, Vice President, Gen. Counsel and Secretary, and Robert C. Voigt, Sr. Atty., Carolina Tel. and Tel. Co., for Carolina Tel. and Tel. Co.
James E. Holshouser, Jr., Brown, Holshouser, Pate & Burke, Southern Pines, and Mitchell Willoughby, Columbia, for Telecommunications Systems, Inc.
Jerry B. Fruitt and Thomas K. Austin, Fruitt & Austin, Raleigh, for Carolina Utility Customers Ass'n, Inc.
Walter E. Daniels, Triangle Park, and John R. Jordan, Jordan, Price, Wall, Gray & Jones, Raleigh, for North Carolina Long Distance Ass'n.
Gene V. Coker, Gen. Atty., AT & T Communications of the Southern States, Inc., Atlanta, Ga., and Wade H. Hargove, Tharrington, Smith & Hargrove, Raleigh, for AT & T Communications of the Southern States, Inc.
Rita A. Barmann, U.S. Sprint Communications Co., Washington, D.C., and Nancy Essex, Poyner & Spruill, Raleigh, for U.S. Sprint Communications Co.
Stephen G. Kraskin, Gen. Counsel, Seabrook, Md., for Atlantic Telephone Membership Corp., Barnardsville Telephone Co., Citizens Telephone Co., Heins Telephone Co., Service Telephone Co., and Wilkes Telephone Membership Corp.
John R. Boger, Jr., Williams, Boger, Grady, Davis & Tuttle, Concord, for Concord Telephone Co.
Samuel Behrends, IV, and R. Bradley Miller, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, Raleigh, for First Union Corp.
Court of Appeals of North Carolina.
HEDRICK, Chief Judge.
At oral argument, counsel for MCI stated that the only question raised by these appeals is whether the Commission violated MCI's vested right to provide intraLATA service via its own facilities. Appellant argues the order entered on 22 February 1985 gave it a vested property right of which it was unconstitutionally deprived by the Commission's failure to allow facilities-based intraLATA competition on 1 January 1987. The Public Staff and Southern...
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