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SOUTHWESTERN BELL TEL. v. PUBLIC UTILITY COM'N

No. 98-50787.

208 F.3d 475 (2000)

SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE CO., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION OF TEXAS; Pat Wood III; Judy Walsh; Brett Pearlman; Time Warner Communications of Austin, L.P.; Time Warner Communications of Houston, L.P.; and Fibrcom, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 30, 2000

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Hearon, Jr. Michael Lee Diehl, Graves, Dougherty, Hearon & Moody, Austin, TX, Sean Abram Lev, Michael K. Kellogg (argued), Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans, Washington, DC, Melanie S. Fannin, Ann E. Meuleman, Southwestern Bell Tel. Co., Austin, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Amanda Atkinson Cagle, Natural Resources Div., Austin, TX, for Public Utility Com'n of Texas Pat Wood, III, Judy Walsh and Brett Pearlman.

Diane M. Barlow (argued), Valerie Patriarca Kirk, Casey, Gentz & Sifuentes, Austin, TX, for Time Warner Communications of Austin, L.P., Time Warner Communications of Houston, L.P. and Fibrcom Inc.

Darryl M. Bradford, John J. Hamill, Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, for MCI Worldcom, Amicus Curiae.

Michael L. Shor, Richard M. Rindler, Swidler, Berlin, Shereff, Friedman, Washington, DC, for ICG Choicecom LP and GST Texas Lightwave Inc., Amicus Curiae.

Mark Witcher, Austin, TX, for Teleport Communications Group, Inc., Amicus Curiae.

Before WIENER and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

WIENER, Circuit Judge:

This appeal involves a dispute between two interconnecting telephone companies ("carriers") in the same local calling areas about whether modem calls placed by local customers of one carrier to the Internet Service Provider ("ISP") customers of another carrier should be charged for as a "local" call. The contracts between the carriers that are parties to this appeal specify that local calls placed by customers of one carrier to customers of...

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