Legal Opinion
Shark v. U.S. West Communications, Inc.
North Dakota Supreme Court
Decided March 21, 1996No. Civil 950407PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MESCHKE, Justice.
Myer Shark and K.W. Simons appeal from a district court order dismissing their separate appeals from the North Dakota Public Service Commission’s (PSC) approval of the sale and transfer of sixty-eight telephone exchanges by U.S. West Communications, Inc. (West) to fifteen cooperative and independent telephone companies. The court held Shark and Simons lacked standing for judicial review. We affirm the dismissals.
West and the Independent Telephone Company Group (ITCG) petitioned the PSC in November 1994 to approve West’s sale of some of its local telephone exchanges in North…
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