CAVALIER TELEPHONE v. VERIZON VIRGINIA

No. 02-1337.

330 F.3d 176 (2003)

CAVALIER TELEPHONE, LLC, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. VERIZON VIRGINIA, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellee, Integrity Telecontent, Movant. Covad Communications Company; AT & T Corporation; Association for Local Telecommunications Services, Amici Supporting Appellant. United States Telecom Association; BellSouth Corporation; SBC Communications, Incorporated, Amici Supporting Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: May 20, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: David William Carpenter, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Illinois, for Appellant. Richard Gary Taranto, Farr & Taranto, Washington, D.C., for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Stephen T. Perkins, Alan M. Shoer, Donald F. Lynch, III, Cavalier Telephone, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellant. John Thorne, Christopher M. Arfaa, Verizon, Arlington, Virginia; Anne Marie Whittemore, Richard Cullen, Robert Michael Tyler, McGuirewoods, L.L.P., Richmond, Virginia; Mark C. Hansen, Aaron M. Panner, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans, P.L.L.C., Washington, D.C.; Andrew Gerald McBride, Wiley, Rein & Fielding, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellee. Margaret A. Robbins, Antony Richard Petrilla, Covad Communications Company, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Covad. Jonathan M. Askin, Association for Local Telecommunications Services, Washington, D.C.; David L. Lawson, Ryan D. Nelson, Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, L.L.P., Washington, D.C.; Mark C. Rosenblum, Lawrence J. Lafaro, AT & T Corporation, Basking Ridge, New Jersey, for Amici Curiae AT & T, et al. Lawrence E. Sarjeant, Indra Sehdev Chalk, Robin E. Tuttle, United States Telecom Association, Washington, D.C.; James F. Rill, Scott E. Flick, Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White, L.L.P., Washington, D.C.; Sanford M. Litvack, Dewey Ballantine, L.L.P., New York, New York; James R. Young, Hunton & Williams, McLean, Virginia; Kimberly A. Newman, Hunton & Williams, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae U.S. Telecom. Michael W. McConnell, Salt Lake City, Utah; Marc Gary, J. Henry Walker, Marc W.F. Galonsky, BellSouth Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia; Stephen M. Shapiro, Jeffrey W. Sarles, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Chicago, Illinois; James D. Ellis, William M. Schur, SBC Communications, Inc., San Antonio, Texas, for Amici Curiae BellSouth, et al.

Before WIDENER and NIEMEYER, Circuit Judges, and GREENBERG, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, sitting by designation.


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Judge WIDENER joined. Senior Judge GREENBERG wrote a dissenting opinion.

OPINION

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents the question of whether the allegations of the complaint in this case, which state ostensible violations of §§ 251 and 252 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Pub.L. No. 104-104, 110 Stat. 56 (1996) (codified at 47 U.S.C. § 151

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