United States Eleventh Circuit

On main issue of case, order by FCC preempting states from requiring or prohibiting the use of line items in customer billing for cellular wireless services is vacated as the FCC exceeded its authority when it preempted the states from requiring or prohibiting the use of line items.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/31/2006
• Published 07/31/2006

Judges

• PRYOR, Circuit Judge:, Before BLACK, PRYOR and COX, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Matthew J. Hardy, Consumer's Utility Counsel, Clare A. McGuire, Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs, Atlanta, GA, Patrick W. Pearlman, Consumer Advocate Div. of WV Pub. Serv. Com'n, Charleston, WV, for Petitioner in No. 05-11682., Laurel Bergold, Laurence N. Bourne, FCC, Robert B. Nicholson, James J. Fredricks, U.S. Dept. of Justice/Antitrust Div., James Bradford Ramsay, Nat'l Assoc. of Reg. Utility Com'n, Washington, DC, for FCC., Stacy J. Canan, Michael Robert Schuster, AARP Found. Lit., Washington, DC, Seth E. Mermin, San Francisco, CA, for Amici Curiae., David L. Lawson, Washington, DC, L. Andrew Tollin, Wilkinson, Barker & Knauer, LLP, James Henry Barker, III, Latham & Watkins, Christopher J. Wright, Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis, LLP, Helgi C. Walker, Andrew G. McBride, Wiley, Rein & Fielding, LLP, Sara F. Leibman, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeco, PC, Washington, DC, Joshua E. Swift, William H. Johnson, Verizon, Arlington, VA, Seamus Cotter Duffy, Christopher M. Arfaa, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, Maureen A. Scott, AZ Corp.Com'n, Legal Div., Phoenix, AZ, for Intervenors., Peter M. Bluhm, Director of Regulatory Policy, Montpelier, VT, for Vermont Public Service Board.