United States Seventh Circuit

With the exception of the provision requiring plaintiff to perform "acceptance testing" - which is a valid exercise of state authority preserved under the Telecommunications Act - the district court correctly assessed various challenges to provisions established by the state utility commission through arbitration and incorporated into the approved interconnection agreement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/05/2004
• Published 03/05/2004

Judges

• KANNE, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, KANNE and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Dennis G. Friedman (argued), Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David L. Steiner, Office of the Attorney General, Indianapolis, IN, David W. Carpenter (argued), Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.