MCI WORLDCOM NETWORK SERVICES, INC. v. MASTEC, INC.

No. 03-13022.

544 F.3d 1200 (2008)

MCI WORLDCOM NETWORK SERVICES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MASTEC, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

October 8, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony J. Jorgenson, James J. Proszek, Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, P.C., Tulsa, OK, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Maria H. Ruiz, Mercer K. Clarke, Clarke, Silverglate, Campbell & Montgomery, Alan Kluger, Steve Ian Silverman, Kluger, Peretz, Kaplan & Berlin, P.L., Miami, FL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before TJOFLAT, BARKETT and SILER, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

In this torts case, MCI WorldCom Network Services, Inc. sued Mastec, Inc., seeking compensatory, loss-of-use, and punitive damages after Mastec inadvertently severed one of MCI's fiber-optic cables. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of Mastec as to MCI's claim for loss-of-use damages. Faced with uncertainty regarding state law on this issue, we certified the following two questions to the Florida Supreme Court:

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