United States Fifth Circuit

The district court correctly overturned the PUC's decision that defendant carrier was responsible for paying the increased interconnection costs resulting from having to carry traffic outside a particular calling area to a distant point of interconnection.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/21/2003
• Published 10/21/2003

Judges

• DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:, Before BARKSDALE, DeMOSS and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David John Schenck (argued), Robert Edwin Davis, David Lawrence Horan, Hughes & Luce, Dallas, TX, Thomas J. Horn, SBC Communications, Austin, TX, for Southwestern Bell Tel. Co., Elizabeth R.B. Sterling, Asst. Atty. Gen. (argued), Austin, TX, for Public Utility Com'n of Texas, Hudson, Klein and Parsley., Thomas K. Anson (argued), Strasburger & Price, Austin, TX, for AT&T Communications of Texas LP, TCG Dallas and Teleport Communications of Houston, Inc.