BELL ATLANTIC MARYLAND, INCORPORATED, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MARYLAND, Defendant-Appellant, and
Wayne K. Curry, County Executive; Howard W. Stone, Jr., Chief Administrative Officer; Barbara L. Holtz, County Attorney; Betty Hager Francis, Director, Department of Public Works and Transportation, Defendants.
National League of Cities; Montgomery County Council; KMC Telecom, Incorporated; Adelphia Business Solutions, formerly known as Hyperion Telecommunications, Incorporated; Level 3 Communications LLC; Allegiance Telecom, Incorporated; The Association for Local Telecommunications Services ("ALTS"); E.Spire Communications, Incorporated; Intermedia Communications, Incorporated; Metromedia Fiber Network Services, Incorporated; Net2000 Communications Services, Incorporated; Nextlink Communications; AT&T Communications of Maryland, Incorporated; SBC Communications, Incorporated, Amici Curiae.
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Argued: February 29, 2000
Decided: May 15, 2000
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
ARGUED: Nicholas Patrick Miller, Miller & Van Eaton, P.L.L.C., Washington, D.C., for Appellant. James Petty Garland, Miles & Stockbridge, P.C., Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: William Malone, Miller & Van Eaton, P.L.L.C., Washington, D.C.; Sean D. Wallace, County Attorney, Prince George's County, Upper Marlboro, Maryland, for Appellant. Jefferson V. Wright, Matthew S. Sturtz, Brian D. Craig, Miles & Stockbridge, P.C., Baltimore, Maryland; Robert D. Lynd, Assistant General, Bell Atlantic-Maryland, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee. Tillman L. Lay, Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, P.L.C., Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae League of Cities. Michael W. Cogan, Montgomery County Council, Rockville, Maryland; James N. Horwood, Scott H. Strauss, Tony Lin, Spiegel & MeDiarmid, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae County Council. Michael J. Lichtenstein, Jeffrey M. Karp, L. Elise Dieterich, Swidler, Berlin, Shereff, Friedman, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae KMC Telecom, et al. Robert W. McCausland, Vice President, Regulatory and Interconnection, Allegiance Telecom, Inc., Dallas, Texas; Emily Williams, The Association for Local Telecommunications Services, Washington D.C.; Heather B. Gold, Vice President, Regulatory and External Affairs, Intermedia Communications, Inc., Tampa, Florida; Jason R. Karp, Director, Regulatory and Legal, Net2000 Communications Services, Inc., Herdon, Virginia; Danny E. Adams, Rebekah J. Kinnett, Kelley, Drye & Warren, L.L.P., Washington, D.C.; Riley M. Murphy, General Counsel, James C. Falvey, Vice President-Regulatory Affairs, E.Spire Communications, Inc., Annapolis Junction, Maryland; Dennis E. Codlin, Vice President-Legal Affairs, Metromedia Fiber Network Services, Inc., East Rutherford, New Jersey; A. Michael Schwarzwalder, V.P. Reginal General Counsel, Nextlink Communications, Washington D.C., for Amici Curiae Allegiance Telecom, et al. Matthew W. Nayden, Sharon A. Snyder, Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver, P.C., Baltimore, Maryland, for Amicus Curiae AT&T Communications. Robert Edwin Davis, David J. Schenck, Hughes & Luce, L.L.P., Dallas, Texas, for Amicus Curiae SBC Communications.
Before WIDENER and LUTTIG, Circuit Judges, and ANDERSON, United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, sitting by designation.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Vacated and remanded with instructions by published opinion. Judge WIDENER wrote the opinion, in which Judge LUTTIG and Judge ANDERSON joined.
OPINION
WIDENER, Circuit Judge:
Prince George's County, Maryland appeals from the district court's grant of judgment on the pleadings to Bell Atlantic-Maryland in Bell Atlantic-Maryland, Inc. v. Prince George's County, Maryland,49 F.Supp.2d 805 (D.Md.1999)...
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