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CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER v. QWEST CORP.

No. 99SA219.

18 P.3d 748 (2001)

CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, Appellant, v. QWEST CORPORATION, a Colorado corporation; McImetro Access Transmission Services, Inc., a Colorado corporation; AT & T Communications of the Mountain States, Inc., a Colorado corporation; ICG Telecom Group, Inc., a Colorado corporation; and Teleport Denver, Ltd., a Colorado limited partnership, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

February 26, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Wallace Wortham, City Attorney, David W. Broadwell, Donald E. Wilson, Andrew L. Weber, and Alice J. Major, Assistant City Attorneys, Kissinger and Fellman, P.C., Kenneth S. Fellman, Denver, CO, Attorneys for City & County of Denver.

Brownstein Hyatt & Farber, P.C., Andrew W. Loewi, David S. Chipman, Beth A. Doherty Quinn, Qwest Corporation, Roy Adkins, Federico Alvarez, Denver, CO, Attorneys for Qwest Corporation.

Colorado Municipal League, Geoffrey T. Wilson, Denver, CO, Amicus Curiae For Colorado Municipal League.

Holland & Hart, LLP, Gregory A. Eurich, Joseph W. Halpern, Denver, CO, Attorneys for AT & T Communications of the Mountain States, Inc.

Baker & Hostetler, LLP, John B. Moorhead, Michael J. Roche, Denver, CO, Attorneys for ICG TeleCom Group, Inc., and Teleport of Denver, Inc.

Petrie, Bauer, Vriesman & Hecht, LLP, Charles B. Hecht, Denver, CO; Jenner & Block, David Handzo, Janis C. Kesterbaum, MCIWorldCom., Inc., Thomas F. O'Neil, Kevin P. Gallagher, Washington, DC, Attorneys for McImetro Access Transmission Services, Inc.

Justice COATS delivered the Opinion of the Court.

The City and County of Denver appeals from the judgment of the Denver District Court granting declaratory relief for the plaintiff-telecommunications companies and dismissing Denver's inverse condemnation counterclaim in an action to declare invalid sections 10.5-1—10.5-41 of the Denver Revised Municipal Code. Because key provisions of the city ordinance conflict with a state statute regarding a matter of mixed...

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