Legal Opinion
At&T Corp. v. Federal Communications Commission
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 24, 2003No. 01-1188 and 01-1201PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Chief Judge GINSBURG.
GINSBURG, Chief Judge:
Atlas, Total, and AT&T appeal different parts of a single order of the Federal Communications Commission. The Commission held that Atlas, an incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC), created Total, ostensibly a competitive access provider, as a sham entity solely in order to increase the rates charged to AT&T, an interexchange carrier (IXC), and thereby engaged in an unjust and unreasonable practice, in violation of § 201(b) of the Communications Act of 1934, 47 U.S.C. § 151 et seq. The Commission also held that AT&T had…
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