IOWA TELECOMMUNICATIONS v. IOWA UTILITIES BD.

Nos. 4:06cv0291 JAJ, 4:06cv0376 JAJ.

545 F.Supp.2d 869 (2008)

IOWA TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES, INC. dba Iowa Telecom, Plaintiff, v. IOWA UTILITIES BOARD, Utilities Division, Department of Commerce; John Norris, Diane Munns and Curtis Stamp, in their Official Capacities as Members of the Iowa Utilities Board and not as Individuals; and Sprint Communications, L.P., dba Sprint Communications Company, L.P., Defendants. Citizens Mutual Telephone Cooperative; Clear Lake Independent Telephone Company; Farmers Mutual Cooperative Telephone Co. of Shelby; Farmers Telephone Company; Grand River Mutual Telephone Corporation; Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative; Huxley Communications; Kalona Cooperative Telephone; Lost Nation-Elwood Telephone Company; Mabel Cooperative Telephone Company; Minburn Telecommunications, Inc.; North English Cooperative Telephone Company; Rockwell Cooperative Telephone Association; Sharon Telephone; Shell Rock Telephone Company dba Bevcomm c/o Blue Earth Valley Telephone Company; South Central Communications, Inc.; South Slope Cooperative Telephone Company; Sully Telephone Association; Titonka Telephone Company; Ventura Telephone Company, Inc.; Webster Calhoun Cooperative Telephone Association; Wellman Cooperative Telephone Association; West Liberty Telephone Company dba Liberty Communications; and Winnebago Cooperative Telephone Association, Plaintiffs, v. Iowa Utilities Board, Utilities Division, Department of Commerce; John Norris, Diane Munns and Curtis Stamp, in their Official Capacities as Members of the Iowa Utilities Board and not as Individuals; and Sprint Communications, L.P., dba Sprint Communications Company, L.P., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Iowa, Central Division.

April 15, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert F. Holz, Jr., Steven L. Nelson, Davis Brown Koehn Shors & Roberts PC, Des Moines, IA, for Plaintiffs.

David Jay Lynch, Mary Frances Whitman, Iowa Utilities Board, James L. Pray, Philip E. Stoffregen, Brown Winick Graves Gross Baskerville & Schoenebaum PLC, Des Moines, LA, Raymond A. Cardozo, Reed Smith LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Defendants.


ORDER

JOHN A. JARVEY, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This case comes before the Court pursuant to Iowa Telecommunications Service's ("Iowa Telecom") June 23, 2006 complaint (Docket No. 1), which was consolidated with an August 4, 2006 complaint by a group of Rural Local Exchange Carriers ("RLECs").1 (Docket No. 14). Iowa Telecom and the RLECs seek review of the...

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