United States Fifth Circuit

Since the Administrative Procedures Act does not require a second round of notice-and-comment, an abbreviated notice-and-comment period does not violate the stricture of the Act, but the FCC must provide explanation regarding determinations of quantitative amounts.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/10/2001
• Published 09/10/2001

Judges

• EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:, Before EMILIO M. GARZA and PARKER, Circuit Judges, and ELLISON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ricardo Guzman, Laurie Pappas, Texas Office of Public Utility Counsel, Austin, TX, for Texas Office of Public Utility Counsel., James U. Troup, James Hardwick Lister, Arter & Hadden, Washington, DC, for Iowa Telecommunications Services, Inc., Albert H. Kramer, Robert F. Aldrich, Valerie M. Furman, Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky, Washington, DC, for American Public Communications Council, Inc., Susan Stevens Miller, Maryland Public Serv. Com'n, Baltimore, MD, for Maryland Public Serv. Commission., Richard T. Jones, Austin, TX, for Consumer Fereration of America., Laurence Nicholas Bourne (argued), John E. Ingle, William E. Kennard, FCC, Office of Gen. Counsel, Washington, DC, for FCC., John Ashcroft, Civ. Div., App. Staff, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for FCC and U.S., Robert J. Wiggers, Catherine G. O'Sullivan, Chief Atty., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Antitrust Div., Washington, DC, for U.S., Matthew Robert Sutherland, Bellsouth Corp., Atlanta, GA, for Bellsouth Corp., James P. Young, Gene C. Schaerr, Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, Washington, DC, for AT&T., Harold Richard Juhnke, Sprint Corp., Washington, DC, for Sprint Corp., Michael E. Glover, Edward Harold Shakin, Verizon Communications, Arlington, VA, for Verizon Tel. Companies., John T. Nakahata (argued), Samuel L. Feder, Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis, Washington, DC, for Coalition For Affordable Local and Long Distance Serv., James S. Blaszak, Levine, Blaszak, Block & Boothby, LLP, Washington, DC, for Ad Hoc Telecommunications Users Committee., Roger K. Toppins, Charles J. Scharnberg, SBC Communications, Inc., Washington, DC, for SBC Communications, Inc., Michael J. Travieso, Maryland Office of People's Counsel, Baltimore, MD, Stephanie A. Joyce, Matthew F. Stowe, Patton Boggs, Washington, DC, Glenn B. Manishin (argued), Patton Boggs, McLean, VA, for National Ass'n of State Utility Consumer Advocates.