AMERITECH v. MPSC

Docket Nos. 198706, 199383.

583 N.W.2d 458 (1998)

229 Mich. App. 664

In the Matter of the Complaint of MCI Telecommunications Corporation Against Ameritech Michigan and GTE North Incorporated Relative to their not making IntraLATA Equal Access Available to MCI in the State of Michigan. AMERITECH MICHIGAN, Appellant, v. MICHIGAN PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, Attorney General of the State of Michigan, MCI Telecommunications Corporation, and AT & T Communications of Michigan, Inc., Appellees. AT & T COMMUNICATIONS OF MICHIGAN, INC., and MCI Telecommunications Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellees, and Michigan Public Service Commission and Attorney General of the State of Michigan, Intervening Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Michigan Bell Telephone Co., d/b/a AMERITECH MICHIGAN, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided May 19, 1998, at 9:15 a.m.

Released for Publication August 26, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman (by Joseph A. Fink, Peter H. Ellsworth, Jeffery V. Stuckey, Lansing, and Michael Gadola), Detroit, Michael A. Holmes, and Ault & Maier, P.C. (by James A. Ault), Okemos, for Ameritech Michigan.

Don L. Keskey, David A. Voges, and Henry J. Boynton, Assistant Attorneys General, for Public Service Commission.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, J. Peter Lark, Assistant in Charge, and Orjiakor N. Isiogu, Assistant Attorney General for Attorney General.

Dykema Gossett PLLC (by Albert Ernst, William J. Perrone, and David T. Arlington), Lansing, (William Single, IV, of Counsel), Washington D.C., for MCI Telecommunications Corporation.

Fischer, Frankling & Ford (by George Hogg, Jr., Anthony J. LeVasseur, and Sidney M. Berman), Detroit, Joan Marsh, and Larry Salustro, East Lansing, for AT & T Communications of Michigan, Inc.

Before YOUNG, P.J., and MARKMAN and SMOLENSKI, JJ.


SMOLENSKI, Judge.

In Docket No. 198706 of these consolidated appeals, Ameritech Michigan appeals as of right an October 1996 order of the Public Service Commission that denied Ameritech's petition for a rehearing of a June 1996 PSC order. In Docket No. 199383, Ameritech appeals as of right a November 1996 circuit court order issuing a writ of mandamus. In both appeals, the PSC, the Attorney General, MCI Telecommunications...

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