United States Sixth Circuit

Structural separation of local exchange carriers for telecommunications companies providing PCS and cellular service is proper where FCC's notice of proposed rulemaking was sufficient, the record supports the agency's conclusion, and deference is given to the agency's statutory interpretation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/15/2000
• Published 11/15/2000

Judges

• Before:  MARTIN, Chief Judge;  DAUGHTREY, Circuit Judge;  HILLMAN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• L. Andrew Tollin (argued and briefed), Craig E. Gilmore (briefed), Robert G. Kirk (briefed), Michael D. Sullivan (briefed), Wilkinson, Barker, Knauer & Quinn, Washington, DC, John P. Frantz (briefed), Steven G. Bradbury (briefed), Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, DC, William P. Barr (briefed), Ward W. Wueste, Jr. (briefed), Washington, DC, M. Edward Whelan III (briefed), GTE Service Corporation, Washington, DC, William B. Barfield (briefed), Jim O. Llewellyn (briefed), BellSouth Corporation, Atlanta, GA, M. Robert Sutherland (briefed), BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc., Atlanta, GA, for Petitioners., Mary McDermott, U.S. Telephone Association, Robert B. McKenna, James G. Pachulski, Michael E. Glover, Matthew B. Pachman, Frank W. Krogh, MCI Telecommunications Corp., Glenn S. Rabin, David A. Gross, Washington, DC, Laurie J. Bennett, U.S. West, Inc., Denver, CO, Michael J. Zpevak, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, Dallas TX, Patricia D. Dennis, Steven D. Strickland, SBC Communications, Inc., San Antonio, TX, for Intervenors.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joel Marcus (argued), Carl D. Lawson (briefed), Christopher J. Wright, Federal Communications Commission, Office of General Counsel, Washington, DC, Robert J. Wiggers (briefed), Cathrine G. O'Sullivan (briefed), U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, Washington, DC, for Respondents.