GULF POWER CO. v. U.S.

No. 98-2403.

187 F.3d 1324 (1999)

GULF POWER COMPANY, Alabama Power Company, an Alabama corporation, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, Cross-Appellees, v. UNITED STATES of America, Federal Communications Commission, Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 9, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph A. Peterson, Beggs & Lane, Pensacola, FL, J. Russell Campbell, Andrew W. Tunnell, Lyle D. Larson, Balch & Bingham, LLP, Birmingham, AL, Marjorie K. Conner, Walter Steimel, Jr., Hunton & Williams, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellants, Cross-Appellees.

Roy Atchison, Asst. U.S. Atty., Pensacola, FL, William Wagner, Dept. of Justice, Gainesville, FL, William H. Clark, Clark, Partington, Hart, Larry, Bond, Stackhouse & Stone, Pensacola, FL, Mark B. Stern, Alisa B. Klein, Dept. of Justice, Civil Div., Appellate, Anthony C. Epstein, Jenner & Block, John D. Seiver, Paul Glist, Cole, Raywid & Braverman, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

David L. Nicoll, Nat. Cable Television Asso., Geoffrey C. Cook, Cole, Raywid & Braverman, Washington, DC, for Intervenor National Cable Television Ass'n.

Before EDMONDSON and CARNES, Circuit Judges, and WATSON, Senior Judge.


CARNES, Circuit Judge:

The plaintiffs-Gulf Power Co., Alabama Power Co., Georgia Power Co., Mississippi Power Co., Ohio Edison Co., Duke Power Co., and Florida Power Corp.—are electric utility companies who brought suit against the United States and the Federal Communications Commission seeking a declaration that the 1996 amendment to the Pole Attachment Act, as codified at 47 U.S.C. § 224(f), is facially unconstitutional because it effects a taking of...

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