Supreme Court of Texas

The Public Utility Commission (PUC) has primary jurisdiction to resolve threshold questions about the meaning and effect of certain telephone interconnection agreements between Southwestern Bell Telephone Company and plaintiff-local exchange telephone service carriers.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/22/2006
• Decided 06/01/2007
• Published 06/01/2007

Judges

• Justice JOHNSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James A. Baker, Weston C. Loegering, Stanford Purser, Hughes & Luce, LLP, Kara Lea Altenbaumer-Price, Dallas, Robert Patrick Rodriguez, Eduardo R. Rodriguez, Rodriguez, Colvin, Chaney & Saenz, L.L.P., Brownsville, Cynthia F. Malone, SBC Texas Legal Department, Pamela St. John, Southwestern Bell Telephone, San Antonio, Mike A. Hatchell, Locke Liddell & Sapp, LLP, Austin, Geoffrey M. Klineberg, Kellogg Huber Hansen Todd & Evans, PLLC, Scott H. Angstreich, Kellog, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, PLLC, Washington, DC, for Relator., Timothy J. Herman, Sean E. Breen, Herman, Howry & Breen, L.L.P., Mark Foster, Foster & Hunter, Christopher Malish, Foster Malish Blair & Cowan, Austin, Gilberto Hinojosa, Magallanes Hinojosa & Mancias, Brownsville, for Real Parties in Interest., John R. Hulme, Natural Resources Division, Austin, for Amicus Curiae.