MCI TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. v. FRISBY

No. S-97-3998.

998 F.Supp. 625 (1998)

MCI TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. H. Russell FRISBY, Jr., Chairman, Claude M. Ligon, Commissioner, E. Mason Hendrickson, Commissioner, Susanne Brogan, Commissioner, Gerald L. Thorpe, Commissioner, of the Public Service Commission of Maryland and Bell Atlantic-Maryland, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

March 25, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles P. Scheeler, Carville B. Collins, Piper & Marbury, Baltimore, MD, Thomas F. O'Neill, Jr., Matthew B. Pachman, MCI Telecommunications Corp., Washington, DC, for plaintiff.

Bryan G. Moorhouse, Susan Stevens Miller, Maryland Public Service Commission, Baltimore, MD, for defendant Public Service Commission.

James P. Garland, Miles & Stockbridge, PC, Baltimore, MD, David A. Hill, Bell Atlantic, Arlington VA, for defendant Bell Atlantic-Maryland.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

SMALKIN, District Judge.

This case is before the Court on Defendants' motions to dismiss. The motions have been fully briefed, and no oral argument is deemed necessary. Local Rule 105.6 (D.Md.). Because the Court concludes that the Eleventh Amendment is a bar to federal jurisdiction, it will grant the motion to dismiss of defendant Public Service Commission of Maryland Commissioners H. Russell Frisby, Jr., Claude M. Ligon, E. Mason...

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