McLaughlin v. Mississippi Power Co.

Mississippi Power Company (MPC) and Interstate Fibernet, Inc. (IFN) appeal an order dissolving an injunction, dismissing IFN’s complaint, and refusing to certify a class. We affirm.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

MPC, an electricity provider, owns easements across tracts of real property owned by Nick Welch, Purcell Company, Inc., Weyerhaeuser Company, Plum Creek South Central Timberlands, LLC, and the other defendants in this suit. Among other things, these easements authorize MPC to operate telecommunications lines across the defendants’ properties “in connection” with their main…