United States Tenth Circuit

The Oklahoma Corporation Commission's orders, which established interconnection obligations under the federal Telecommunications Act between rural telephone companies and defendants-commercial radio service providers, are affirmed where they are not in violation of the federal regulatory and statutory schemes.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/11/2005
• Published 03/11/2005

Judges

• PAUL KELLY, JR., Circuit Judge., Before KELLY, ANDERSON and O'BRIEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kendall W. Parrish (Ron Comingdeer, Mary Kathryn Kunc, David W. Lee, and Ambre C. Gooch, Comingdeer, Lee & Gooch, Oklahoma City, OK, and Kimberly K. Brown, Kimberly K. Brown, P.C., Oklahoma City, OK, with him on the briefs), Comingdeer, Lee & Gooch, Oklahoma City, OK, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Phillip R. Schenkenberg (Michael G. Harris and William H. Hickman, Moricoli Harris & Cottingham, Oklahoma City, OK, with him on the brief), Briggs and Morgan, P.A., Saint Paul, MN, for Defendant-Appellee WWC License L.L.C., Marc Edwards and Jennifer Kirkpatrick, Phillips McFall McCaffrey McVay & Murrah, P.C., Oklahoma City, OK, and Lawrence S. Smith, Smith, Majcher & Mudge, L.L.P., Austin, TX, on the brief for Defendant-Appellee AT & T Wireless Services, Inc., John Paul Walters, Jr., Edmond, OK, on the brief for Defendant-Appellee Cingular Wireless., Brett Leopold, Sprint Spectrum, L.P., Overland Park, KS, on the brief for Defendant-Appellee Sprint Spectrum, L.P., d/b/a Sprint PCS.