Texas Ass'n of Long Distance Telephone Companies v. Public Utility Commission of Texas

MOTION TO STRIKE BRIEFS

TEXALTEL has filed a motion in this Court to strike the briefs of AT & T and the SPGSC, which those entities purported to file as appellees. Following the dismissal of their claims in the trial court, neither AT & T nor the SPGSC retained any pleaded claim or interest contrary to TEXALTEL vis-a-vis TEXALTEL’s action against the PUC. In order to have created and protected their status as parties adverse to TEXALTEL, AT & T and the SPGSC should have asserted their contrary claims or interest by way of a plea in intervention in TEXALTEL’s suit before consolidation of the…