United States Eighth Circuit

District court erred in dismissing action to collect amounts allegedly due under federal and state telecommunications tariffs for services plaintiff provided in connecting wireless calls to rural Iowa local telephone companies. Claims were not precluded by the Iowa Utilities Board's prior decision on the matter, as the Telecommunications Act supplants common law principles of claim preclusion.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/07/2004
• Published 04/07/2004

Judges

• HANSEN, Circuit Judge., Before BYE, HANSEN, and MELLOY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James U. Troup, argued, Washington, D.C. (Lawrence P. McLellan and Michael P. Joynt on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David S. Sather, argument, Des Moines, IA (Bobbee J. Musgrave and Steven J. Perfrement on the brief), for appellee.