Legal Opinion
Qwest Corp. v. Colorado Public Utilities Commission
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 26, 2011No. 10-1187, 10-1212PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRISCOE, Chief Judge.
Plaintiff Qwest Corporation (Qwest) and defendants Colorado Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), individual commissioners, and Cbeyond Communications, LLC (Cbeyond) (together, defendants), cross-appeal from the district court’s decision construing 47 C.F.R. § 51.5, a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulation relating to local telephone service providers. In order to facilitate competition in the local telephone service market, federal law requires incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs), such as Qwest, to lease certain parts of their telecommunications networks…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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