Illinois Telephone Corp. v. Illinois Commerce Commission

The petitioners, Illinois Telephone Corporation and Darryl Henry, one of its officers (collectively, ITC), petition for review of an order of the Illinois Commerce Commission (the Commission), which found that ITC failed to prove, by a preponderance of the evidence, that certain direct-dialed international calls were not made through its pay telephones but rather, as ITC alleged, through an illegal tap on respondent Illinois Bell’s (Bell) telephone lines. On review of the Commission’s decision, ITC argues (1) that the Commission erred in allowing Bell to disconnect local phone service to ITC…