California Court of Appeal

Imposition of multimillion dollar fine against petitioner is upheld over claims that: 1) the PUC's decisions here are preempted by federal law; 2) the PUC lacks jurisdiction to directly impose penalties; 3) the PUC could not impose a penalty for failure to disclose under Public Utilities Code section 2896(a); 4) the imposition of a multimillion dollar fine violates due process; and 5) the PUC's order that petitioner refund early termination fees to its customers is overbroad.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/20/2006
• Published 06/20/2006

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• O'Melveny & Myers, Charles C. Read, Michael A. Gatto, Los Angeles, and Walter Dellinger, for Petitioner., Munger, Tolles & Olson and Henry Weissmann, Los Angeles, for Cellco Partnership as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Law Offices of Earl Nicholas Selby and Earl Nicholas Selby, Palo Alto, for Nextel of California, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Sprint Law Department and Stephen H. Kukta, for Sprint Telephony PCS, L.P., Sprint Spectrum L.P., and Wireless Co., L.P., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Wilson & Bloomfield and Leon Bloomfield, for Omnipoint Communications, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Cooper, White & Cooper and Sean P. Beatty, San Francisco, for California Telephone Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., James B. Young, for Pacific Bell Telephone Company (SBC California) as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Russell C. Swartz, Rosemead, for Southern California Edison Company as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., W. Davis Smith, for Southern California Gas Company and San Diego Gas & Electric Company as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Elaine M. Duncan, for Verizon California Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Rosner, Law & Mansfield and Alan M. Mansfield for Real Party in Interest.


• For Appellees:
  
• Randolph L. Wu, Dale Holzschuh, San Francisco, Kimberly J. Lippi, Helen W. Yee and Carrie G. Pratt, for Respondent.