TENNESSEE v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COM'N

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Joshua S. Turner , Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, D.C., for Petitioner in 15-3291. John F. Maddrey , North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Petitioner in 15-3555. Matthew J. Dunne , Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D.C., for Respondents. ON BRIEF: Joshua S. Turner , Megan L. Brown , Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, D.C., for Petitioner in 15-3291. John F. Maddrey , North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Petitioner in 15-3555. Matthew J. Dunne , Richard K. Welch , Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D.C., for Respondents. James Bradford Ramsay , National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, Washington, D.C., for Intervenor National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. James Baller , Sean A. Stokes , Ashley Stelfox , Baller Herbst Stokes & Lide, PC, Washington, D.C., James P. Cauley III , Gabriel Du Sablon , Cauley Pridgen, P.A., Wilson, North Carolina, for Intervenor City of Wilson. Frederick L. Hitchcock , Willa B. Kalaidjian , Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C., Chattanooga, Tennessee, for Intervenor Electric Power Board of Chattanooga. William J. Kirsch , Arlington, Virginia, Andrew L. Brasher , Office of the Alabama Attorney General, Montgomery, Alabama, Conor B. Dugan , Warner Norcross & Judd LLP, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Richard A. Samp , Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, D.C., David Parkhurst , National Governors Association, Washington, D.C., Bartlett Cleland , Jonathan Hauenschild , American Legislative Exchange Council, Arlington, Virginia, Ashley Stelfox , Baller Herbst Stokes & Lide, PC, Washington, D.C., Mark C. Del Bianco , Law Office of Mark C. Del Bianco, Kensington, Maryland, Andrew Jay Schwartzman , Eric G. Null , Institute for Public Representation, Washington, D.C., Lani L. Williams , Local Government Lawyer's Roundtable, Inc., Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, Kimberly Hibbard , North Carolina League of Municipalities, Raleigh, North Carolina, Markham C. Erickson , Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae.

ROGERS, J., delivered the opinion of the court in which HOOD, D.J., joined, and WHITE, J., joined in part. WHITE, J. (pp. 614-15), delivered a separate opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.