The OHIO BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY (90-3146/3688); Cincinnati Bell Telephone Company (90-3162/3707); South Central Bell Telephone Company, Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company and Bellsouth Telephone Companies (90-3833); the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company (90-3832); and Wisconsin Bell, Inc. (90-3354/3831), Petitioners,
v.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, Respondent.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued July 23, 1991.
Decided November 21, 1991.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
William B. Barfield (briefed), R. Frost Branon, Jr. (briefed), Atlanta, Ga., Thomas Welch, J. Manning Lee, Washington, D.C., for Bellsouth Telephone Companies, Southern Bell Tel. and Tel. Co., and South Central Bell Telephone Co.
William C. Sullivan, Richard C. Hartgrove (briefed), Joseph E. Cosgrove, Jr., Michael J. Zpevak (briefed), St. Louis, Mo., for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
Donald W. Boecke, Washington, D.C., for New York Telephone Co., and New England Tel. and Tel. Co.
Frank W. Krogh, Donald J. Elardo, Washington, D.C., for MCI Telecommunications Corp.
Genevieve Morelli, Competitive Telecommunications Assoc., Gen. Counsel, Washington, D.C., for Competitive Telecommunications Assn, Competitive Telecommunications Assoc.
David W. Carpenter, James S. Whitehead, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Ill., Francine J. Berry, David P. Condit, Basking Ridge, N.J., for American Tel. and Tel. Co.
Cathrine G. O'Sullivan, Andrea Limmer, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Antitrust Div., Nancy C. Garrison, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Chief Appellate Section, Antitrust Div., Washington, D.C., for U.S.
Donald M. Rose (argued and briefed), Frost & Jacobs, Cincinnati, Ohio, Alfred Winchell Whittaker (argued and briefed), Katherine Zeitlin Duckers, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, D.C., Floyd S. Keene (briefed), JoAnne G. Bloom (briefed), Michael T. Mulcahy (briefed), Chicago, Ill., Donald W. Morrison (briefed), Ohio Bell Telephone Co., Cleveland, Ohio, for Ohio Bell Telephone Co.
John W. Bogy, James P. Tuthill, San Francisco, Cal., Stanley J. Moore, Washington, D.C., for Pacific Bell, and Nevada Bell.
James S. Blaszak, Charles C. Hunter, M. Christina Carter-Pena, Gardner, Carton and Douglas, Washington, D.C., for Ad Hoc Telecommunications Users Committee.
Alfred Winchell Whittaker (argued and briefed), Katherine Zeitlin Duckers, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, D.C., Floyd S. Keene (briefed), JoAnne G. Bloom (briefed), Michael T. Mulcahy (briefed), Chicago, Ill., for Wisconsin Bell, Inc.
Donald McG. Rose (argued and briefed), William D. Baskett III (briefed), Thomas E. Taylor (briefed), Susan W. Kamp (briefed), Frost & Jacobs, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Cincinnati Bell Telephone Co.
Richard L. Thornburgh, Atty. Gen., Cathrine G. O'Sullivan, Andrea Limmer, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Antitrust Div., Linda L. Oliver, Robert L. Pettit (briefed), Laurence N. Bourn (briefed), John E. Ingle (argued and briefed), Office of the Gen. Counsel, F.C.C., Washington, D.C., for F.C.C. and U.S.
Before: BOGGS and NORRIS, Circuit Judges; and HULL, Chief District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
BOGGS, Circuit Judge.
Petitioners and supporting intervenors are a group of local and regional telephone companies. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2341 and 47 U.S.C. § 402(a), they petition this court to review the lawfulness of an order of the Federal Communication Commission ("the Commission" or "the FCC") requiring them to refund purported "overearnings" in the "special access category" of earnings for the 1985-86 and 1987-88 two-year monitoring periods.
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