Illinois Bell Telephone Co. v. Federal Communications Commission

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

A number of telephone companies formerly owned by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and still known as the Bell operating companies, have petitioned us under 28 U.S.C. § 2342(1) (which vests the courts of appeals with exclusive jurisdiction to review certain orders issued by the Federal Communications Commission, see 47 U.S.C. § 402(a), including orders promulgating rules, see Columbia Broadcasting System v. United States, 316 U.S. 407, 419, 62 S.Ct. 1194, 1201, 86 L.Ed. 1563 (1942)) to set aside an order made by the FCC at the conclusion of a…