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SHARK v. U.S. WEST COMMUNICATIONS INC.

Civil No. 950407.

545 N.W.2d 194 (1996)

Myer SHARK and K.W. Simons, Appellants, v. U.S. WEST COMMUNICATIONS, INC., BEK Communications Cooperative, Consolidated Telephone Cooperative, Dakota Central Telecommunications Cooperative, Dickey Rural Telephone Cooperative, Griggs County Telephone Company, Inter-Community Telephone Company, Moore & Liberty Telephone Company, Midstate Telephone Company Northwest Communications Corporation, North Dakota Telephone Company, Polar Communications Mutual Aid Corporation, Red River Rural Telephone Association, Reservation Telephone Cooperative, United Telephone Mutual Aid Corporation, West River Telecommunications Cooperative, and their affiliates, Appellees and The Public Service Commission of North Dakota, Respondent.

Supreme Court of North Dakota.

March 21, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Myer Shark Law Office, Fargo, for appellants; argued by Myer Shark. Peterson Law Office, Fargo; appearance by Craig A. Peterson.

Zuger, Kirmis & Smith, Bismarck, for appellee U.S. West; argued by Daniel S. Kuntz. William P. Heaston (appeared), Senior Attorney, U.S. West Communications, Inc., Denver.

The Law Office, Ltd., Grafton, for appellee Independent Telephone Company Group; argued by Wallace R. Goulet.

MESCHKE, Justice.

Myer Shark and K.W. Simons appeal from a district court order dismissing their separate appeals from the North Dakota Public Service Commission's (PSC) approval of the sale and transfer of sixty-eight telephone exchanges by U.S. West Communications, Inc. (West) to fifteen cooperative and independent telephone companies. The court held Shark and Simons lacked standing for judicial review. We affirm the dismissals.

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