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IN RE REGISTRATION ELECTRIC LIGHTWAVE, INC.

No. 59999-8.

123 Wn.2d 530 (1994)

869 P.2d 1045

In the Matter of the Consolidated Cases Concerning the Registration of Electric Lightwave, Inc. and Registration and Classification of Digital Direct of Seattle, Inc. ELECTRIC LIGHTWAVE, INC., ET AL, Respondents, WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT TELEPHONE ASSOCIATION, ET AL, Appellants, v. THE UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION, Appellant.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

As amended by order April 28, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vandeberg & Johnson, by Richard A. Finnigan, for appellant Washington Independent Telephone Association.

Richard E. Potter and Timothy J. O'Connell, for appellant GTE Northwest, Inc.

Christine O. Gregoire, Attorney General, and Donald T. Trotter, Assistant, for appellant State.

Robert S. Snyder, for appellant Whidbey Telephone Company.

Ater Wynne Hewitt Dodson & Skerritt, by Arthur A. Butler and Stephen J. Kennedy, for respondents Electric Lightwave, Inc., and TRACER.

Davis Wright Tremaine, by Daniel M. Waggoner and Gregory J. Kopta, for respondent Digital Direct.

Miller, Nash, Wiener, Hager & Carlsen, Clyde H. MacIver, Brooks E. Harlow, and Beth M. Andrus (William C. Harrelson and Sue E. Weiske, of counsel), for respondent MCI Telecommunications Corporation.

[As amended by order of the Supreme Court April 28, 1994.]

UTTER, J.

Appellants seek to overturn a superior court order reversing in part and affirming in part three orders issued by the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (Commission or WUTC). We affirm the trial court's decisions that the Commission is powerless to grant exclusive rights to telecommunications companies, that the Commission properly registered Electric Lightwave, Inc. (ELI...

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