United States Eleventh Circuit

The district court did not abuse its discretion when it entered a preliminary injunction that barred enforcement of an order of the Georgia Public Service Commission which required plaintiff to negotiate the terms of providing its competitors unlimited access to its facilities.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/15/2005
• Published 09/15/2005

Judges

• PRYOR, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT, PRYOR and ALARCÓN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffrey A. Rackow, MCI, Inc., Washington, DC, Teresa Wynn Roseborough, Dara Loren Steele-Belkin, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, LLP, Daniel Stephen Walsh, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Law, Clare A. McGuire, Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs, Barry J. Armstrong, McKenna, Long & Aldridge, LLP, Atlanta, GA, Newton M. Galloway, Galloway & Lyndall, LLP, Griffin, GA, for Appellants., Joseph M. Ruggiero, Arlington, VA, Bruce David Cohen, Verizon, Newark, NJ, for Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jill Warner, Matthew H. Patton, Michael E. Brooks, Kilpatrick & Stockton, L.L.P., Atlanta, GA, Sean A. Lev, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans & Figel, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC, for Appellees.