United States Eighth Circuit

Orders of a state public utilities commission which set and applied retroactively the rates that telecommunication companies must pay when leasing plaintiff's network infrastructure are affirmed where the commission did not violate the rule against retroactive ratemaking, and was not arbitrary or capricious in setting the rates at issue.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/02/2006
• Published 02/02/2006

Judges

• LAY, Circuit Judge., Before WOLLMAN, LAY, and RILEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John M. Devaney, argued, Washington, DC (Donald J. Friedman, Roy E. Hoffinger, Robert E. Cattanach, and Jason D. Topp, on the brief), for appellant., J. Jeffrey Oxley, argued, Minneapolis, MN (David L. Lawson, Christopher T. Shenk, Gregory R. Merz, Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Michael B. DeSanctis, Kathleen R. Hartnett, Jeffrey A. Rackow, Brent Vanderlinden, Dennis D. Ahlers, Dan Lipschultz and Thomas Erik Bailey, on the brief), for intervenors.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gary R. Cunningham, argued, Assistant Attorney General, St. Paul, MN (Mike Hatch, on the brief), for appellee.