QWEST COMMUNICATIONS INTERN., INC. v. F.C.C.

No. 97-9518.

240 F.3d 886 (2001)

QWEST COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL, INC., fka U.S. West Communications, Inc., Petitioner, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, Respondent. Bellsouth Corporation; Bellsouth Telecommunications, Inc.; AT&T; National Telephone Cooperative Association, (NTCA); Sprint Corporation; Telecommunications Resellers Association (TRA); MCI Worldcom, (MCI) formerly known as MCI Telecommunications Corporation; GTE Service Corporation (GTE); Nextlink Communications, Inc. (Nextlink); Airtouch Communications, Inc. (Airtouch); Cincinnati Bell Telephone Company (CBT); Time Warner Communications Holdings, Inc. ("TWCOMM"); The Association For Local Telecommunication Services ("ALTS"); National Cable Television Association, Inc.; Worldcom, Inc.; Bell Atlantic-Delaware, Inc., Bell Atlantic-Maryland, Inc., Bell Atlantic-New Jersey, Inc., Bell Atlantic-Pennsylvania, Inc., Bell Atlantic-Virginia, Inc., Bell Atlantic-Washington, D.C., Inc., Bell Atlantic-West Virginia, Inc., "Bell Atlantic"; United States Telephone Association ("USTA"), Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

February 14, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samir C. Jain (William T. Lake, John H. Harwood II, Lynn R. Charytan, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C., and Dan L. Poole and Robert B. McKenna, U.S. West Communications, Inc., Washington, D.C., with him on the briefs), for Petitioner.

Stewart Allen Block (Christopher J. Wright, General Counsel, John E. Ingle, Deputy Associate General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D.C. and Joel I. Klein, Assistant Attorney General, Catherine G. O'Sullivan, Nancy C. Garrison, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., with him on the brief), for Respondent.

James H. Bolin, Jr. (Mark C. Rosenblum, Roy E. Hoffinger, AT&T Corp., Basking Ridge, New Jersey, and Peter D. Keisler, Daniel Meron, Rudolph M. Kammerer, Sidley & Austin, Washington, D.C., with him on the briefs) for Intervenor AT & T Corp.

Thomas F. O'Neil, III, William Single, IV, Matthew B. Pachman, MCI WORLDCOM, Inc., Washington, D.C. and Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Jodie L. Kelley, Heather K. Gerken, Jenner & Block, Washington, D.C., for Intervenor MCI WorldCom, Inc.

Before EBEL, BALDOCK and KELLY, Circuit Judges.


PAUL KELLY, JR., Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Qwest Communications International Inc. ("Qwest") seeks our review of two orders of the Federal Communications Commission (the "Commission") pertaining to number portability: Telephone Number Portability, First Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, CC Docket No. 95-116, FCC 96-286, 1996 WL 400225 (July 2, 1996) ("First Report and Order"); and Telephone Number Portability, Fourth Memorandum...

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