United States Ninth Circuit

Although the California Public Utilities Commission determined the correct formula to calculate common cost markup, it improperly implemented the methodology by attributing some common costs to wholesale operations that should have been attributed to retail operations. Consequently, the Court reversed the amount of common costs that defendant's competitors must pay for access to defendant's network.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/04/2003
• Decided 07/14/2004
• Published 07/14/2004

Judges

• WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:, Before: CANBY, W. FLETCHER, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael B. DeSanctis and Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Jenner & Block, Washington, D.C.;  Jeffrey A. Rackow and Teresa Tan, WorldCom, Inc., San Francisco, CA, for plaintiffs-appellants MCI WorldCom and MCI-Metro Access Transmission.


• For Appellees:
  
• Catherine Barrad and David W. Carpenter, Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, Los Angeles, CA;  Randolph W. Deutsch, Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, Los Angeles, CA;  David J. Miller, AT & T Communications of California, Inc., San Francisco, CA, for appellant/appellee AT & T., Michael K. Kellogg and Colin S. Stretch, Kellogg Huber Hansen Todd & Evans, Washington, D.C.;  James B. Young and David P. Discher, Pacific Bell Telephone Co., San Francisco, CA, for appellee/appellant Pacific Bell Telephone Company., Gretchen Dumas, Gary M. Cohen and Helen Mickiewicz, PUC of the State of California, San Francisco, CA, for defendants-appellees PUC of the State of California, et al.