United States Second Circuit

In an action involving a competitive local-exchange carrier's (CLEC's) challenge to acquire a portion of the incumbent's market share, the Vermont Public Service Board's decisions that: 1) Board determined local calling areas would continue to control whether a call is a toll call or a local call; and 2) plaintiff is prohibited from offering virtual NXX service, are affirmed where the Board properly exercised jurisdiction over these matters and properly applied The Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/05/2006
• Published 07/06/2006

Judges

• CUDAHY, Circuit Judge., Before FEINBERG, B.D. PARKER, and CUDAHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David John Mullet, David John Mullett, P.C., Montpelier, VT, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bruce P. Beausejour and Keefe B. Clemons, Verizon New England, Inc., Boston, MA, for Verizon New England, Inc., Defendant-Appellee., Sean A. Lev, Scott H. Angstreich and Derek Ho, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC, for Verizon New England, Inc., Defendant-Appellee., Clifford Peterson, Assistant Attorney General for the State of Vermont, Montpelier, VT, for Michael H. Dworkin, John D. Burke and David C. Coen, Defendants-Appellees.