MICHIGAN BELL v. MFS INTELENET OF MICHIGAN

No. 99-1996.

339 F.3d 428 (2003)

MICHIGAN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, d/b/a Ameritech Michigan, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MFS INTELENET OF MICHIGAN, INC.; TCG Detroit; Brooks Fiber Communications of Michigan, Inc.; MCI Telecommunications Corporation; MCIMetro Access Transmission Services, Inc.; AT & T Communications of Michigan, Inc.; BRE Communications, L.L.C.; and John G. Strand, John C. Shea, and David A. Svanda, Commissioners of the Michigan Public Service Commission (in Their Official Capacities and Not As Individuals), Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: May 20, 2003.

Petition for Rehearing Denied: August 14, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Theodore A. Livingston, MAYER, BROWN, ROWE & MAW, Chicago, Illinois, for Appellant.

Darryl M. Bradford, JENNER & BLOCK, Chicago, Illinois, Michael A. Nickerson, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, Lansing, Michigan, for Appellees.

ON BRIEF: Theodore A. Livingston, Robert M. Dow, Jr., John E. Muench, Demetrios G. Metropoulos, MAYER, BROWN, ROWE & MAW, Chicago, Illinois, Jeffery V. Stuckey, John M. Dempsey, DICKINSON, WRIGHT, Lansing, Michigan, Michael A. Holmes, Detroit, Michigan, for Appellant.

Darryl M. Bradford, John R. Harrington, JENNER & BLOCK, Chicago, Illinois, Michael A. Nickerson, David A. Voges, Henry J. Boynton, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, Lansing, Michigan, Arthur J. LeVasseur, FISCHER, FRANKLIN & FORD, Detroit, Michigan, for Appellees.

Before: DAUGHTREY and MOORE, Circuit Judges; CARR, District Judge.


Petition for Rehearing Denied En Banc: August 14, 2003.

Pursuant to Sixth Circuit Rule 206

OPINION

MARTHA CRAIG DAUGHTREY, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff, Michigan Bell Telephone Company, doing business as Ameritech Michigan, Inc., filed a federal lawsuit pursuant to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 47 U.S.C. §§ 151-615b, seeking a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief against several competing local telecommunications carriers...

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