United States Sixth Circuit

Michigan Telecommunications Act of 2000 section 701 freezes telephone rates, and section 310(7) abolishes end user common line charge without providing a mechanism to safeguard the right to earn a constitutional rate of return by allowing price increases that reflect only costs.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/04/2001
• Decided 07/13/2001
• Published 07/13/2001

Judges

• Before JONES and DAUGHTREY, Circuit Judges;  ECONOMUS, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffery V. Stuckey (briefed), Peter H. Ellsworth (briefed), Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman, Lansing, MI, Michael G. Vartanian, Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman, Detroit, MI, Sean A. Lev (briefed), Mark Lewis Evans (briefed) Michael K. Kellogg (argued and briefed), Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans, Washington, DC, for Michigan Bell Telephone Co., David A. Voges (argued and briefed), Asst. Atty. Gen., Patricia S. Barone(briefed), Atty. Gen., Public Service Div., Lansing, MI, for John Engler, David A. Svanda, Robert B. Nelson and John G. Strand., Robert J. Franzinger, Dykema Gossett, Detroit, MI, for Worldcom, Inc., Roderick S. Coy (briefed), Thomas E. Maier (briefed), Clark Hill PLC, Okemos, MI, for American Association of Retired Persons., Patrick F. Philbin (argued and briefed), Andrew B. Clubok (briefed), Matthew T. Henderson (briefed), Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, DC, Seth D. Gould, Feeney, Kellett, Wienner & Bush, Bloomfield Hills, MI, for Verizon North Inc., Seth D. Gould, Feeney, Kellett, Wienner & Bush, Bloomfield Hills, MI, for Contel of the South, Inc.