ZOGRAFOS v. QWEST COMMUNICATIONS CORP.

No. CIV.00-6201-AA.

225 F.Supp.2d 1217 (2002)

Bill ZOGRAFOS and Sharon Zografos, Swan Ranch LLC, Lesco Enterprises, Inc., Gross-Wilkinson Ranch Co., Rex Dolan, and Everett and Joanne Chambers, Plaintiffs, v. QWEST COMMUNICATIONS CORP., Sprint Communications Company, L.P., MCI WORLDCOM Network Services, Inc., Williams Communications, LLC, and Level 3 Communications, LLC, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Oregon.

July 12, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dan W. Clark, Dole, Coalwell, Clark, et al., Roseburg, OR, Samuel D. Heins, Stacey L. Mills, Renae D. Steiner, Kent M. Williams, Heins, Mills & Olson, Minneapolis, MN, Irwin B. Levin, Cohen & Malad, LLP, Indianapolis, IN, Kenneth Wittenberg, Wittenberg & Pitzer, Portland, OR, for Plaintiffs.

Michael G. Andrea, Eric R. Todderud, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, LLP, Portland, OR, Emily Brubaker, John F. Daum, Paul G. McNamara, O'Melveny & Myers, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Kyle D. Freeman, J. Kevin Hayes, T. Lane Wilson, Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, Tulsa, OK, David A. Handzo, J. Alex Ward, Jenner & Block, Washington, DC, Natalie L. Hocken, Pacificorp, Portland, OR, Joseph Edward Jones, Fraser, Stryker, Meusey, Olson, Boyer & Bloch, Omaha, NE, Stuart Duncan Jones, Bullivant, Houser, Bailey, PC, Portland, OR, Robert A. Kerr, Dunn, Carney, Allen, Higgins & Tongue, Portland, OR, J. Emmett Logan, Morrison & Hecker, LLP, John P. Nusbaum, Lawrence H. Reichman, Michael H. Simon, Perkins Coie, LLP, Portland, OR, Scott A. Powell, Hare, Wynn, Newell & Newton, Birmingham, AL, Henry J. Price, Price, Potter, Jackson, et al., Indianapolis, IN, Thomas C. Sand, Miller, Nash, Wiener, Hager & Carlsen, LLP, Portland, OR, M. Max Williams, II, Miller Nash, LLP, Portland, OR, for Defendants.

Nels J. Ackerson, Kathleen C. Kauffman, The Ackerson Group, Washington, DC, Douglas C. Adair, Trippe, Brown & Adair, LLP, Birmingham, AL, John B. Baldwin, Baldwin & Baldwin, LLP, Marshall, TX, Hayes D. Brown, Monroe, Trippe, Brown & Adair, LLP, Birmingham, AL, Donald J. Churnside, Gaydos, Churnside & Balthrop, PC, Eugene, OR, Andrew W. Cohen, Roger C. Johnson, Koontz, McKenney, Johnson, et al., Washington, DC, Catherine M. Colinvaux, Zelle, Hofmann, Voelbel, Mason & Gette, Waltham, MA, William A. Davis, Abbott, Davis, Rothwell, Mullin & Earle, PC, Portland, OR, Joel DeVore, Robert H. Fraser, David A. Jacobs, Luvaas, Cobb, Richards & Fraser, PC, Eugene, OR, Richard L. Duncan, Gilreath & Associates, Knoxville, TN, William T. Gotfryd, Arthur T. Susman, Susman & Watkins, Chicago, IL, George Valton Jones, George Valton Jones Attorney at Law, Marshall, TX, John F. Kilcullen, Brown, Roseta, Long, et al., Eugene, OR, Jordan M. Lewis, Stegel, Brill, Greupner, Duffy & Foster, Milwaukee, WI, John B. Massopust, Daniel J. Millea, Zelle, Hofmann, Voelbel, Mason & Gette, LLP, Minneapolis, MN, Mike Miller, Solberg, Stewart, Miller & Johnson, Fargo, ND, Donald K. Vowell, Vowell & Associates, Knoxville, TN, Ronald J. Waicukauski, Price, Potter, Jackson, et al., Indianapolis, IN, for Intervenors.

Ron Bodinson, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Overland Park, KS, Christopher T. Carson, Kilmer, Voorhees & Laurick, PC, Portland, OR, Joe Rebein, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Kansas City, MO, for Union Pacific Railroad Co.


OPINION AND ORDER

AIKEN, District Judge.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

This action arises out of the construction of fiber optic cable networks along railroad Rights of Way. See Amended Complaint, ¶ 2. Defendants Qwest Communications, Sprint Communication, MCI WORLDCOM Network Services, Williams Communications and Level 3 Communications (defendants) obtained the railroads' permission to install telecommunications facilities in the Rights...

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