Legal Opinion

AT & T Communications of California Inc. v. Pacific Bell Telephone Co.

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided July 14, 2004No. Nos. 02-16751, 02-16755, 02-16818PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

In these appeals, we consider whether the California Public Utilities Commission (“CPUC”) correctly determined the price that Pacific Bell Telephone Company (“Pacific”) may charge its competitors for access to its local telephone network, pursuant to the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (“Act” or “1996 Act”) arid the implementing regulations of the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”). We conclude that, although the general methodology chosen by the CPUC to calculate a common cost markup was appropriate, the CPUC improperly implemented the methodology by…

2Cases cited7 opinions

At&T Corp. v. Iowa Utilities BoardSupreme Court of the United States · 1999
Verizon Communications Inc. v. Federal Communications CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
At&T Corp. v. Federal Communications CommissionCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2000
Newton v. DiamondCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2003
At&t Communications Systems, a California Corporation v. Pacific Bell, a California Opinion CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2000

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3Cited by1 opinion

At & T Communications of California Inc., a California Corporation, and MCI Worldcom Network Services, Inc., a Delaware Corporation MCI Metro Access Transmission Services, Llc, a Delaware Corporation v. Pacific Bell Telephone Company, a California Corporation Public Utilities Commission of the State of California Loretta M. Lynch Henry M. Duque Richard A. Bilas Carl W. Wood Geoffrey F. Brown, in Their Official Capacities as Commissioners of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California, Not as Individuals, at & T Communications of California Inc., a California Corporation, and MCI Worldcom Network Services, Inc., a Delaware Corporation MCI Metro Access Transmission Services, Llc, a Delaware Corporation v. Pacific Bell Telephone Company, a California Corporation Public Utilities Commission of the State of California Loretta M. Lynch Henry M. Duque Richard A. Bilas Carl W. Wood Geoffrey F. Brown, in Their Official Capacities as Commissioners of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California, Not as Individuals, at & T Communications of California Inc., a California Corporation MCI Worldcom Network Services, Inc., a Delaware Corporation MCI Metro Access Transmission Services, Llc, a Delaware Corporation v. Pacific Bell Telephone Company, a California Corporation, Public Utilities Commission of the State of California Loretta M. Lynch Henry M. Duque Richard A. Bilas Carl W. Wood Geoffrey F. Brown, in Their Official Capacities as Commissioners of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California, Not as IndividualsCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2004