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U S WEST COMMUNICATIONS v. ARIZONA CORP. COM'N

No. 1 CA-CV 97-0517.

3 P.3d 936 (1999)

197 Ariz. 16

U S WEST COMMUNICATIONS, INC., a Colorado corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISSION, an agency of the State of Arizona; Renz D. Jennings, Marcia Weeks and Carl J. Kunasek, as members of the Arizona Corporation Commission, Defendants-Appellees, Sprint Communications, Inc.; AT&T Communications of the Mountain States, Inc.; MCI Telecommunications, Inc.; TCG Phoenix; Arizona Payphone Association, Intervenors-Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division 1, Department B.

Review Denied April 18, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

U S West Law Department by Norton Cutler, William M. Ojile, Jr., Denver, Colorado, and Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering by Louis R. Cohen, Jonathan R. Frankel, Washington, D.C., and Fennemore Craig, P.C. by Timothy Berg, Theresa Dwyer, Phoenix, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Arizona Corporation Commission by Janet F. Wagner, Janice M. Alward, Phoenix, for Defendants-Appellees.

Osborn Maledon, P.A. by Andrew D. Hurwitz, Joan S. Burke, Phoenix, for Intervenors-Appellees TCG Phoenix, AT&T Communications of the Mountain States, Inc.

AT&T Communications of the Mountain States, Inc. by Maria Arias-Chapleau, Mary Tribby, Denver, Colorado, for Intervenor-Appellee AT&T Communications of the Mountain States, Inc.

Lewis and Roca LLP by Patricia K. Norris, Thomas H. Campbell, W. Todd Coleman, Phoenix, for Intervenor-Appellee MCI Telecommunications, Inc.

Ridge & Issacson, P.C. by Steven J. Duffy, Phoenix, for Intervenor-Appellee Sprint Communications, Inc.

OPINION

RYAN, Judge.

¶ 1 For more than eighty years, U S WEST Communications, Inc. ("U S WEST") and its predecessor have had a monopoly in providing local telephone service in Arizona. Recently, the process to change this situation in the local telecommunications field was begun. This appeal presents questions arising out of these first steps to introduce competition in the local telecommunications field.

¶ 2 U S WEST challenges the Arizona...

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