MICHIGAN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
COVAD COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY, et al., Intervenors Defendants-Appellants,
McLeodUsa Telecommunications Services, Inc., et al., Intervenors,
J. Peter Lark, Commissioner, et al., Defendants.
Michigan Bell Telephone Company, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
Laura Chappelle, et al., Defendants-Appellants,
Covad Communications Company, et al., Intervenors.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued: December 10, 2008.
Decided and Filed: February 23, 2010.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
ARGUED: Bill Magness, Casey, Gentz & Magness, L.L.P., Austin, Texas, Michael A. Nickerson, Office of the Michigan Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan, for Appellants. William Julius Champion III, Dickinson Wright PLLC, Ann Arbor, Michigan, for Appellee. Scott H. Angstreich, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, PLLC, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae. ON BRIEF: Bill Magness, Casey, Gentz & Magness, L.L.P., Austin, Texas, Steven D. Hughey, Office of the Michigan Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan, Michael S. Ashton, Fraser, Trebilcock, Davis & Dunlap, P.C., Lansing, Michigan, Steven D. Hughey, Office of the Michigan Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan, for Appellants. William Julius Champion III, Jeffery V. Stuckey, Dickinson Wright PLLC, Ann Arbor, Michigan, for Appellee. Scott H. Angstreich, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, PLLC, Washington, D.C., Laurel R. Bergold, P. Michele Ellison, Richard K. Welch, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae.
BATCHELDER, C.J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which GILMAN, J., joined. SUTTON, J. (pp. 387-92), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
OPINION
ALICE M. BATCHELDER, Chief Judge.
A state telephone-utility commission and several competitive local exchange carriers appeal a judgment in which the district court vacated the commission's order requiring the incumbent local exchange carrier to provide certain "entrance facilities" at wholesale prices. Finding the appellants' arguments unpersuasive, we AFFIRM.
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