US WEST COMMUNICATIONS, INC. v. HIX

Civ.A.Nos. 97-D-152, 97-D-387, 97-D-934, 97-D-1667, 97-D-2047, 97-D-2096 and 98-D-934.

93 F.Supp.2d 1115 (2000)

US WEST COMMUNICATIONS, INC., a Colorado corporation, Plaintiff, v. Robert J. HIX, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Colorado.

April 13, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Ojile, Jr., Colleen M. Rea, Evergreen, CO, Bobbee J. Musgrave, B. Lawrence Theis, Perkins Coie, Denver, CO, Kathryn E. Ford, Steven Harold Denman, Richard L. Corbetta, Melissa A. O'Leary, Denman & Corbetta PC, Denver, CO, Russell Paul Rowe, Michael Craig Thompson, Denver, CO, for U.S. West Communications, Inc., a Colorado corporation, plaintiff.

Linda Ann Surbaugh, United States Attorney's Office, Civil Division, Denver, CO, Theodore C. Hirt, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, Martha Hirschfield, for USA, F.C.C., intervenor-plaintiffs.

David Alexander Beckett, Attorney General's Office, Department of Law, Denver, CO, Anthony Marquez, Attorney General's Office, Human Resources Section, Denver, CO, for Robert J. Hix, Commissioner of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of Colorado, Brent Alderfer, Vincent Majkowski, defendants.

Joseph W. Halpern, Robert M. Pomeroy, Jr., Marcy Geoffrey Glenn, Holland & Hart, LLP, United States District Court, Denver, CO, Michael D. Warden, Sidley & Austin, Washington, DC, Paul Michael Gordon, Wendell Hume Goddard, Gordon & Goddard LLP, Oakland, CA, David R. DeMuro, Vaughan & DeMuro, Denver, CO, Deborah S. Waldbaum, Deborah Waldbaum, Atty at Law, Englewood, CO, for TCG Colorado, a New York General Partnership, Teleport Communications Group, Inc., defendants.

Craig D. Joyce, Anne Baudino Holton, Walters & Joyce, P.C., Denver, CO, Albert H. Kramer, David Blair Killalea, Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky, Washington, DC, for ICG Telecom Group, Inc., a Colorado corporation, defendant.

Robert W. Nichols, Phillisa Scott Shoemaker, Nichols & Hecht, LLC, Denver, CO, Charles B. Hecht, Petrie, Bauer, Vriesman & Hecht, Denver, CO, for McImetro Access Transmission Services, Inc., intervenor-defendant.

Letty S.D. Friesen, Ireland, Stapleton, Pryor & Pascoe, P.C., United States District Court, Denver, CO, Joseph W. Halpern, Robert M. Pomeroy, Jr., Marcy Geoffrey Glenn, Dorsey & Whitney, Denver, CO, for AT & T of the Mountain States, Inc., intervenor-defendant.

Theodore C. Hirt, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, Martha Hirschfield, for Federal Communications Commission, amicus.


FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

DANIEL, District Judge.

THIS MATTER arises under Sections 251 and 252 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 47 U.S.C. §§ 251 and 252 ("the Telco Act"). The Telco Act fundamentally restructured local telephone markets, ending the monopolies that States historically granted to local exchange carriers (LECs) and subjected incumbent LECs to an array of duties intended...

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