Legal Opinion
Verizon New England, Inc. v. Maine Public Utilities Commission
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 6, 2007No. 06-2151, 06-2429PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Chief Judge.
Verizon is a major telephone company comprising, among other components, several of the former Bell System operating companies (“BOCs”) based in the New England and Mid-Atlantic regions. In the federal district court in Maine, Verizon challenged rulings of the Maine Public Utilities Commission (“PUC”) and lost; Verizon won in a comparable case in the New Hampshire district court directed against the New Hampshire PUC. The resulting appeals, one by Verizon and the other by the New Hampshire agency, are now before us.
Background. When the Bell System’s “substantial domination…
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