United States Ninth Circuit

The filed rate doctrine does not apply to a claim that a phone company incorrectly charged a user for an extra account, since it does not challenge the tariff rate itself but merely how the tariff was applied.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/07/2001
• Decided 01/17/2002
• Published 01/17/2002

Judges

• Before:  T.G. NELSON and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges, and AIKEN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael Padilla, O'Mara & Padilla, San Diego, California, for plaintiff-appellant William J. Brown.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey A. Rosenfeld, Daniel J. Schultz, Antony E. Buchignani, Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe LLP, Los Angeles, California;  Thomas F. O'Neil III, David T. Smorodin, MCI WorldCom, Inc., Washington, DC, for defendant-appellee MCI WorldCom Network Services, Inc.