AMERITECH CORP. v. U.S.

Nos. 93 C 6642, 94 C 4089.

867 F.Supp. 721 (1994)

AMERITECH CORPORATION, Illinois Bell Telephone Company, and Michigan Bell Telephone Company, Plaintiffs, and Consolidated Communications, Inc. and Illinois Consolidated Telephone Company, Intervenor-Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Federal Communications Commission, and Janet Reno, in her official capacity as Attorney General of the United States of America, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

October 28, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert Calille, Michigan Bell Telephone Co., Detroit, MI, Howard J. Roin, Christine Ann Pagac, Michael W. McConnell, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, IL, and Thomas Byron H., III, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Washington, DC, for plaintiffs.

Linda A. Wawzenski, U.S. Attys. Office, Chicago, IL, James J. Gilligan, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Washington, DC, and L. Michael Wicks and Daniel R. Hurley, U.S. Attys. Office, Chief Affirmative Litigation Div., Detroit, MI, for defendants.

Joseph A. Morris, Morris, Rathnau & DeLaRosa; Santiago A. Durango, Bell & McGurk, Ltd.; and James Arthur McGurk, Chicago, IL, for amici curiae.

Allan Horwich and Owen Eliot MacBride, Schiff, Hardin & Waite, Chicago, IL, for intervenors-plaintiffs.

Thomas W.B. Porter and Donald S. Young, Dykema Gossett, Detroit, MI, for movants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

GRADY, District Judge.

Ameritech Corporation and Illinois Bell Telephone Company filed this lawsuit against defendants United States of America, the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC"), and Janet Reno, in her official capacity as the Attorney General of the United States (collectively "the Government"), seeking a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief under 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201 and 2202. The lawsuit raises a First...

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