United States Eighth Circuit

District court's grant of injunction is affirmed where the court did not abuse its discretion in enjoining enforcement of the Nebraska Public Service Commission order requiring nomadic interconnected VoIP service providers to collect a universal service fund surcharge for intrastate usage as federal law preempts all state regulation of nomadic interconnected VoIP service providers and the FCC is the sole regulatory control.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/01/2009
• Published 05/01/2009

Judges

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

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Leonard Jay Bartel, AAG, argued, Lincoln, NE, for appellant., Joseph R. Palmore, FFC, argued, Washington, DC, Robert Nicholson, DOJ, James J. O'Connell, Jr., Deputy AAG, DOJ; Thomas O. Barnett, AAG, DOJ, Washington, DC, Nandan M. Joshi, FCC; Richard K. Welch, FCC; and Mathew B. Berry, FCC, Washington, DC, on the brief, for amicus on behalf of appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark Andrew Grannis, argued, Washington, DC, Thomas G. Connolly, and Justin Dillon, on the brief, for appellee.