SPRINTCOM, INC. v. COMMISSIONERS OF ILL. COMMERCE

No. 14-3807.

790 F.3d 751 (2015)

SPRINTCOM, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. COMMISSIONERS OF the ILLINOIS COMMERCE COMMISSION, and Illinois Bell Telephone Co., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 23, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip R. Schenkenberg , Attorney, Briggs & Morgan, Minneapolis, MN, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Thomas R. Stanton , Attorney, Illinois Commerce Commission Office of General Counsel, Chicago, IL, for Commissioners of the Illinois Commerce Commission.

Dennis Friedman , Hans Germann , Attorneys, Mayer Brown LLP, Chicago, IL, for Illinois Bell Telephone Co.

Before POSNER, EASTERBROOK, and MANION, Circuit Judges.


The Telecommunications Act of 1996, 47 U.S.C. §§ 151 et seq., sought (so far as relates to this case) to encourage competition in local telephone service. 110 Stat. 56, preamble. Companies that had once been the local subsidiaries of AT & T, such as Illinois Bell, but that had become independent when AT...

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