Legal Opinion
Voices for Choices v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 6, 2003No. 03-2735, 03-2766PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge, in chambers.
I have before me motions for leave to file amicus curiae briefs. Fed. R.App. P. 29. The status of the movants impels me to state publicly my reasons for denying the motions.
The defendants, telephone companies that do business in Illinois and that I shall refer to collectively as “SBC,” appeal from the district court’s ruling that portions of the Illinois Public Utilities Act are preempted by the provisions of the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 that require owners of telecommunications network infrastructure, like SBC, to grant access to their…
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