Legal Opinion
Bellsouth Telecommunications, Inc. v. MCImetro Access Transmission Services, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided January 10, 2002No. 00-12809, 00-12810PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
In these consolidated appeals, we are asked to review two orders of the Georgia Public Service Commission (the “GPSC”), which interpreted contracts between telecommunications carriers. The contracts were interconnection agreements mandated by the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, 110 Stat. 56, 56 (1996). The United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, believing that the GPSC had the authority to interpret these agreements under that statute, affirmed the orders. We find no statutory authority for the action that the GPSC took in these cases…
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