VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. et al.
v.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION et al.
United States Supreme Court.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued October 10, 2001.
Decided May 13, 2002.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
William P. Barr argued the cause for Verizon Communications, Inc., et al., petitioners in No. 00-511, and for BellSouth Corp. et al., respondents in Nos. 00-555, etc. With him on the briefs were M. Edward Whelan, Patrick F. Philbin, Michael E. Glover, Mark L. Evans, Michael K. Kellogg, Henk Brands, Charles R. Morgan, James G. Harralson, Andrew G. McBride, Scott Delacourt, Roger K. Toppins, Gary Phillips, Sean A. Lev, and Steven G. Bradbury.
Solicitor General Olson argued the cause for the federal parties, petitioners in Nos. 00-587, etc., and respondents in No. 00-511. With him on the briefs were Acting Solicitor General Underwood, Acting Assistant Attorney General Nannes, Deputy Solicitor General Wallace, Barbara McDowell, Catherine G. O'Sullivan, Nancy C. Garrison, and Laurence N. Bourne. David P. Murray filed briefs for respondent Sprint Corporation in Nos. 00-511, etc., in support of petitioner federal parties and in opposition to petitioners Verizon Communications, Inc., et al.
Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., argued the cause for WorldCom, Inc., et al., petitioners in No. 00-555 and respondents in No. 00-511, and for AT&T Corp., petitioner in No. 00-590 and respondent in Nos. 00-511, etc. With him on the briefs for WorldCom, Inc., et al. were Jodie L. Kelley, Ian Heath Gershengorn, Thomas F. O'Neil III, William Single IV, Carol Ann Bischoff, Robert M. McDowell, and Robert J. Aamoth. David W. Carpenter, Peter D. Keisler, Stephen B. Kinnaird, C. Frederick Beckner III, and Mark C. Rosenblum filed briefs for AT&T.
Briefs for respondents in Nos. 00-511, etc., were filed by Irwin A. Popowsky for the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates, by James Bradford Ramsay and Lawrence G. Malone for the Public Service Commission of New York et al., and by William T. Lake, John H. Har-wood II, and Robert B. McKennna for Qwest Communications International, Inc.†
Souter, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and Stevens, Kennedy, and Ginsburg, JJ., joined, in which Scalia and Thomas, JJ., joined as to Part III, and in which Thomas, J., also joined as to Part IV. Breyer, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which Scalia, J., joined as to Part VI, p. 539. O'Connor, J.,took no part in the consideration or decision of the cases.
United States Supreme Court.
Justice Souter delivered the opinion of the Court.*
These cases arise under the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Each is about the power of the Federal Communications Commission to regulate a relationship between monopolistic companies providing local telephone service and companies entering local markets to compete with the incumbents. Under the Act, the new entrants are entitled, among other things, to lease elements of the local telephone...
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