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AT & T COMMUNICATIONS v. PACIFIC BELL TELE. COMPANY

Nos. 02-16751, 02-16755, 02-16818.

375 F.3d 894 (2004)

AT & T COMMUNICATIONS OF CALIFORNIA INC., a California corporation, Plaintiff, and MCI Worldcom Network Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation; MCI Metro Access Transmission Services, LLC, a Delaware corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. PACIFIC BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, a California corporation; Public Utilities Commission of the State of California; Loretta M. Lynch; Henry M. Duque; Richard A. Bilas; Carl W. Wood; Geoffrey F. Brown, in their official capacities as Commissioners of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California, not as individuals, Defendants-Appellees. AT & T Communications of California Inc., a California corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, and MCI Worldcom Network Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation; MCI Metro Access Transmission Services, LLC, a Delaware corporation, Plaintiffs, v. Pacific Bell Telephone Company, a California corporation; Public Utilities Commission of the State of California; Loretta M. Lynch; Henry M. Duque; Richard A. Bilas; Carl W. Wood; Geoffrey F. Brown, in their official capacities as Commissioners of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California, not as individuals, Defendants-Appellees. AT & T Communications of California Inc., a California corporation; MCI Worldcom Network Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation; MCI Metro Access Transmission Services, LLC, a Delaware corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Pacific Bell Telephone Company, a California corporation, Defendant-Appellant, Public Utilities Commission of the State of California; Loretta M. Lynch; Henry M. Duque; Richard A. Bilas; Carl W. Wood; Geoffrey F. Brown, in their official capacities as Commissioners of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California, not as individuals, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed July 14, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael B. DeSanctis and Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Jenner & Block, Washington, D.C.; Jeffrey A. Rackow and Teresa Tan, WorldCom, Inc., San Francisco, CA, for plaintiffs-appellants MCI WorldCom and MCI-Metro Access Transmission.

Catherine Barrad and David W. Carpenter, Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, Los Angeles, CA; Randolph W. Deutsch, Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, Los Angeles, CA; David J. Miller, AT & T Communications of California, Inc., San Francisco, CA, for appellant/appellee AT & T.

Michael K. Kellogg and Colin S. Stretch, Kellogg Huber Hansen Todd & Evans, Washington, D.C.; James B. Young and David P. Discher, Pacific Bell Telephone Co., San Francisco, CA, for appellee/appellant Pacific Bell Telephone Company.

Gretchen Dumas, Gary M. Cohen and Helen Mickiewicz, PUC of the State of California, San Francisco, CA, for defendants-appellees PUC of the State of California, et al.

Before: CANBY, W. FLETCHER, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

In these appeals, we consider whether the California Public Utilities Commission ("CPUC") correctly determined the price that Pacific Bell Telephone Company ("Pacific") may charge its competitors for access to its local telephone network, pursuant to the Telecommunications Act of 1996 ("Act" or "1996 Act") and the implementing regulations of the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC"). We conclude that, although the general methodology...

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