AT & T COMM. OF SOUTHWEST v. CITY OF DALLAS, TEX.

No. CA 3-98-CV-003-R.

52 F.Supp.2d 756 (1998)

AT & T COMMUNICATIONS OF THE SOUTHWEST, INC., Teligent, Inc., GTE Southwest Inc., Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, Caprock Communications Corp., Golden Harbor of Texas, Inc., and Westel, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF DALLAS, TEXAS, Defendant.

United States District Court, N.D. Texas, Dallas Division.

July 7, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Harmon Tarpley, Sheinfeld Maley & Kay, Dallas, TX, Andrew William Austin, Sheinfeld Maley & Kay, Austin TX, for AT & T Communications.

Richard L. Crozier, Davidson & Troilo, Austin, TX, for Taylor Communications, Inc., USLD Communications, Inc., Caprock Communications Corp., Golden Harbor of Texas, Inc., Westel Incorporated.

Michael Anthony Shaunessy, Bickerstaff Health Smiley Pollan Kever & McDaniel, Austin, TX, Diane M. Barlow, Casey Gentz & Sifuentes, Austin, TX, for Teligent, Inc.

E. Russell Nunnally, Sally Christine Helppie, Tammy Sue Wood, Bell Nunnally & Martin, Dallas, TX, Anthony V. James, Irving, TX, Steven Gill Bradbury, John P. Frantz, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, DC, for GTE Southwest Incorporated.

Lionel M. Schooler, Gilpin Paxson & Bersch, Houston, TX, for Sprint Communications Co.

Emily Williams, Washington, DC, for Association of Local Telecommunications Services.

Weston C. Loegering, Robert Edwin Davis, David John Schenck, Hughes & Luce, Dallas, TX, David Randall Johnson, Dallas, TX, Barbara R. Hunt, Dallas, TX, for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

BUCHMEYER, Chief Judge.

The plaintiffs in this case are all telecommunications companies that have challenged the adoption and enforcement by the City of Dallas of a form franchise ordinance attempting to regulate the provision of local telephone services in the City. This Court granted a preliminary injunction in this case to AT & T Communications of the Southwest ("AT & T") at a hearing held on April 9, 1998, and recently...

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