Legal Opinion
Iowa Utilities Board v. Federal Communications Commission
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 18, 1997No. Nos. 96-3321, 96-3406, 96-3410, 96-3414, 96-3416, 96-3418, 96-3424, 96-3430, 96-3436, 96-3444, 96-3450, 96-3453, 96-3460, 96-3507, 96-3519, 96-3520, 96-3603, 96-3608, 96-3696, 96-3708, 96-3709, 96-3756, 96-3901, 96-3906 and 96-3982PublishedCited by 138 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HANSEN, Circuit Judge.
When Alexander Graham Bell, after spilling sulfuric acid on himself, first transmitted the words, “Mr. Watson, come here; I want you,” across a rudimentary phone line in 1876,1 he could not have possibly imagined that his invention would explode into the current technologically-advanced, multi-bil-lion dollar telecommunications industry. Nor could he have foreseen the amount of legislation, regulation, and litigation that his invention would generate.
I. Background
One hundred twenty years after Bell’s discovery, Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 19962 (the…
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