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SABLE COM. OF CALIFORNIA INC. v. PACIFIC TEL. & TEL. CO.

Nos. 88-5586, 88-5596, 88-5798, 88-5819, 88-6065, 88-6127, 88-6130.

890 F.2d 184 (1989)

SABLE COMMUNICATIONS OF CALIFORNIA INC.; Carlin Communications, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. PACIFIC TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant, and Public Utilities Commission of the State of California, Defendant, General Telephone Company of California, Defendant-Intervenor. SABLE COMMUNICATIONS OF CALIFORNIA INC.; CARLIN COMMUNICATIONS, INC., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION, Defendant-Appellant, and PACIFIC TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY, Defendant, GENERAL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA, Defendant-Intervenor. SABLE COMMUNICATIONS OF CALIFORNIA, INC., et al., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. PACIFIC TELEPHONE, et al., Defendant-Appellant. SABLE COMMUNICATIONS OF CALIFORNIA INC.; Carlin Communications, Inc.; Pacific Bell, Plaintiff-Appellees, v. PACIFIC TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY, Defendant, and California Public Utilities Commission, Defendant-Appellant. SABLE COMMUNICATIONS OF CALIFORNIA INC.; Carlin Communications, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellees, v. PACIFIC TELEPHONE, now known as Pacific Bell, Defendant-Appellant. SABLE COMMUNICATIONS OF CALIFORNIA, INC.; Carlin Communications, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. PACIFIC TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY; California Public Utilities, Defendants, and General Telephone Company of California, dba GTE California, Inc., Defendant-Appellant. SABLE COMMUNICATIONS OF CALIFORNIA, INC.; Carlin Communications, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. PACIFIC TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY; General Telephone Company of California, dba California Inc., Defendants, and California Public Utilities Commission, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided November 22, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bart Kimball and Alan D. Croll, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant-appellant Pacific Telephone.

Janice E. Kerr, J. Calvin Simpson, Gretchen T. Dumas, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant-appellant Cal. Public Utilities Com'n.

Jeffrey A. Maldonado, Thousand Oaks, Cal., for defendant-intervenor-appellant Gen. Telephone.

Richard K. Simon, Los Angeles, Cal., and Lawrence E. Abelman, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before BROWNING, FARRIS and CANBY, Circuit Judges.

JAMES R. BROWNING, Circuit Judge:

Pacific Telephone ("Pacific Bell"), the California Public Utilities Commission ("CPUC"), and General Telephone appeal from the grant of summary judgment for Sable Communications and Carlin Communications (collectively "Sable") in Sable's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action challenging CPUC Rule 31, which authorized disconnection of telephone service for Sable's sexually explicit messages under certain conditions. We also review the propriety...

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