Legal Opinion
Hawaiian Telephone Co. v. Public Utilities Commission of State of Hawaii
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 11, 1987No. Nos. 85-1907, 85-1908PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
CANBY, Circuit Judge:
The ultimate issue in this case is whether the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (PUC) violated an order of the Federal Communications Commission mandating use of a particular set of “separations” procedures for allocating the respective costs and investments between interstate and intrastate telephone operations. A threshold question is whether the district court had jurisdiction under § 401(b) of the Communications Act to enforce the FCC order. In essence, the district court’s permanent injunction required the PUC to obey the FCC order by raising Hawaiian Telephone…
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