United States Tenth Circuit

Tariff opt-in provisions for competing local exchange carriers do not violate section 252 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/04/2002
• Published 01/04/2002

Judges

• BRISCOE, Circuit Judge., Before BRISCOE, McKAY, and HALL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David P. Murray, Randy Branitsky, and Kevin M. Miller, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, of Washington DC, for the appellant Sprint Communications Company L.P., Terri L. Mascherin, Andrew M. Spangler, Jr., and John J. Hamill, Jenner & Block, LLC, of Chicago, IL, and William Single, IV, Brian J. Leske, and Thomas F. O'Neill III, Worldcom, Inc., of Washington DC, for the appellants MCI Telecommunications Corporation and MCIMetro Access Transmission Services, Inc.


• For Appellees:
  
• Wendy M. Moser and Todd L. Lundy, Qwest Corporation, B. Lawrence Theis, Perkins Coie LLP, of Denver, CO, Kara M. Sacilotto, Perkins Coie LLP, of Washington, DC, and Kirstin S. Dodge, Perkins Coie LLP, of Bellevue, Washington, for the appellee Qwest Corporation.