United States Tenth Circuit

In a challenge to defendant-City's ordinance, which established procedures for telecommunications providers seeking access to city-owned rights-of-way, certain preempted provisions are severable, and the remaining ordinance sections are not disturbed by the removal of the invalid provisions.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/25/2004
• Published 08/25/2004

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, PORFILIO, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• David R. Goodnight and John H. Ridge, Stoel Rives, L.L.P., Seattle, Washington (Yana D. Koubourlis, Sarah E. Heineman, Dorsey & Whitney, LLP, Seattle, WA, Roy A. Adkins, Qwest Corporation, Denver, CO, William R. Richardson, Jr., Lynn R. Charytan, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C., with him on the briefs), for Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee., Joseph Van Eaton, Miller & Van Eaton, P.L.L.C., Washington, D.C. (William Malone, Mitsuko R. Herrera, Miller & Van Eaton, P.L.L.C., Washington, D.C., Nann Houliston, Of Counsel, Albuquerque, NM, Bruce Thompson, City Attorney, City of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, with him on the briefs), for Defendant-Appellee/Cross-Appellant.