United States Eleventh Circuit

In challenges to several FCC guidelines implementing 1996 Amendments to the Pole Attachments Act (Act), the FCC erred in finding that the Act extends to electric transmission facilities, and that utilities must expand the capacity of their facilities to ensure access by attaching entities.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/13/2002
• Published 06/13/2002

Judges

• WILSON, Circuit Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and BIRCH and WILSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Anthony C. Epstein,Jenner & Block, Steptoe & Johnson, LLP, Thomas Peter Steindler, McDermott, Will & Emery, Robert P. Williams, II, Troutman Sanders, Jean G. Howard, Florida Power & Light Co., Miami, FL, Washington, DC, for Petitioners., John D. Seiver, Cole, Raywid & Braverman, Washington, DC, for Intervenor, Nat. Cable Television Ass'n., Laurence W. Brown, Washington, DC, for Intervenor, Edison Elec. Institute, Inc., Jeffrey Lee Sheldon, McDermott, Will & Emery, Paul Glist, Geoffrey Charles Cook, Cole, Raywid & Braverman, Washington, DC, for Intervenor, Bell Atlantic., Tracey A. Drohan, Charles A. Zdebski, Troutman Sanders, Washington, DC, for Petitioners in 00-11193., Christine M. Gill, McDermott, Will & Emery, Washington, DC, for Petitioner in 00-11300.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory M. Christopher, Washington, DC, Robert J. Wiggers, Robert B. Nicholson, Antitrust Div., App. Section, Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondents.