Legal Opinion
MCI Worldcom Network Services, Inc. v. Paetec Communications, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided October 25, 2006No. 06-1013UnpublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Per curiam
MCI WorldCom Network Services, Inc. (“MCI”) filed this lawsuit against Paetec Communications, Inc. (“Paetec”) to recover telecommunications access charges that it paid for a period of time, but later chai lenged as unsupported by tariff 1 . Specifically, MCI alleges that Paetec unlawfully charged it for routing toll-free calls from third-party wireless carriers to MCI’s network when that service was not within the Paetec tariffs, either federal or state, to which MCI subscribed. MCI paid the charges initially because Paetec’s invoices did not separately state them. When the charges were…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- American Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Central Office Telephone, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1998
- At&T Communications of the Southern States, Inc. v. BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2001
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- Sancom, Inc. v. AT & T CORP.District Court, D. South Dakota · 2010
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