COMMUNICATIONS TELESYSTEMS INTERN. v. CAL. P.U.C.

Nos. 98-16400, 99-15940.

196 F.3d 1011 (1999)

COMMUNICATIONS TELESYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, a California corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, and Greenlining Institute; Latino Issues Forum; Greenlining Institute and Latino Issues Forum, Intervenors, v. CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION; P. Gregory Conlon; Jessie J. Knight, Jr.; Henry M. Duque; Josiah L. Neper; Richard A. Bilas, Defendants-Appellees. Communications Telesystems International, a California corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. P. Gregory Conlon; Jessie J. Knight; Henry M. Duque; Josiah L. Neper; Richard A. Bilas, Defendants-Appellees, and Greenlining Institute and Latino Issues Forum, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed November 4, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Laurence Popofsky, Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Terry J. Houlihan, McCutchen, Doyle Brown & Enersen, San Francisco, California, for defendants-appellees The Greenlining Institute and Latino Issues Forum; Lynne P. McGhee, San Francisco, California, for defendant-appellee California Public Utilities Commission.

Before: GOODWIN, SCHROEDER, and GRABER, Circuit Judges.


GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff Communications Telesystems International ("CTS") sued in district court ("CTS 1") to set aside sanctions imposed upon it by the California Public Utilities Commission ("CPUC"). CTS claimed that the sanctions violated the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 47 U.S.C. § 253 (the "Act"). The district court eventually dismissed the action in deference to state proceedings under the doctrine of Younger v. Harris,

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