United States Second Circuit

Under 47 USC 202(a), once a reseller proves that a common phone carrier has discriminated against it in favor of end users in providing similar services, the common phone carrier must prove the the disparity was reasonable.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/07/2000
• Decided 01/12/2001
• Published 01/12/2001

Judges

• JOHN M. WALKER, Jr., Chief Judge:, Before JOHN M. WALKER Jr., Chief Judge, MESKILL, and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Richard C. Yeskoo and Thomas T. Tamlyn, Jr., Fabricant & Yeskoo, LLP, New York, NY, and Maxwell M. Blecher, Alicia G. Rosenberg, and William C. Hsu, Blecher & Collins, P.C., Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Frederick L. Whitmer, Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch, New York, NY, and David W. Carpenter, Charles W. Douglas, and D. Cameron Findlay, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.