MCI Telecommunications Corp. v. Heitkamp

NEUMANN, Justice.

MCI Telecommunications Corporation [MCI] and Mid American Communications, d/b/a LDDS Communications [LDDS], ap pealed a district court judgment dismissing their action against M.K. Heidi Heitkamp, North Dakota Attorney General [Attorney General], for a declaratory judgment that Senate Bill 2385, passed by the 1993 Legislature, violates the North Dakota Constitution. The challenged statute declares that, through July 31,1999, companies providing local telephone exchange service may not be required to provide intraLATA dialing parity, without access codes, to long distance…