United States Sixth Circuit

Michigan order forcing an incumbent telecommunications carrier to pay termination costs to defendant-competitor for ISP-bound calls is inconsistent with (and therefore preempted by) the negotiation and arbitration provisions of the Telecommunications Act because it allows the competitor to establish its own compensation rate.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/28/2004
• Published 04/28/2004

Judges

• Before: MARTIN and MOORE, Circuit Judges;  WEBER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Gerald Masoudi (argued and briefed), Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, DC, James P. Feeney, Feeney Kellett, Wienner & Bush, Bloomfield Hills, MI, A. Randall Vogelzang, Irving, TX, Seth D. Gould(briefed), Weinner & Gould, Troy, MI, for Plaintiff-Appellee., David A. Voges, Asst. Atty., Michael A. Nickerson (argued and briefed), Office of the Attorney General Public Service Division, Lansing, MI, for Defendant-Appellant., Robert J. Franzinger, Dykema Gossett, Detroit, MI, Thomas E. Maier, Clark Hill, Okemas, MI, for Defendant.