VONAGE HOLDINGS CORP. v. MINNESOTA PUBLIC UTILITIES COM'N

No. 04-1434.

394 F.3d 568 (2004)

VONAGE HOLDINGS CORPORATION, Appellee, MCI Worldcom Communications, Inc.; MCImetro Access Transmission Services, Inc., Intervenor Plaintiffs — Appellees v. The MINNESOTA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION; Leroy Koppendrayer; Gregory Scott; Phyllis Reha; R. Marshall Johnson, in their official capacities as the Commissioners of the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission and not as individuals, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: December 22, 2004.


ORDER AND JUDGMENT

This case concerns a dispute over whether federal communications law preempts defendant/appellant the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission ("MPUC") from imposing common carrier telecommunications regulations on plaintiff/appellee Vonage Holdings Corporation ("Vonage") for its voice over the Internet protocol, or VoIP, service. The District Court, finding MPUC's proposed regulation preempted, issued a...

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