United States Fourth Circuit

In case involving putative class action alleging that defendant's Federal Universal Service Charge was excessive and that defendant violated North Carolina's Unfair Trade Practices Act by not disclosing to its customers certain information about the FUSC, judgment for defendant, and issuance of injunction of state court action, is affirmed over claim that the injunction violated the Anti-Injunction Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/03/2007
• Published 07/03/2007

Judges

• Before TRAXLER, KING, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Amiel J. Rossabi, Forman, Rossabi, Black, P.A., Greensboro, North Carolina, for Appellant.  Adam Howard Charnes, Kilpatrick & Stockton, L.L.P., Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  William F. Patterson, Jr., Forman, Rossabi, Black, P.A., Greensboro, North Carolina;  Michael G. Wimer, Wimer and Jobe, Asheville, North Carolina, for Appellant.  Ashley B. Watson, BellSouth Telecommunications, Incorporated, Atlanta, Georgia;  James H. Kelly, Jr., Richard S. Gottlieb, James J. Hefferan, Jr., Kilpatrick & Stockton, L.L.P., Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for Appellee.