United States Ninth Circuit

In a suit to invalidate defendant-Cities' franchise and telecommunication ordinances, a ruling that the ordinances were not preempted by the Federal Telecommunications Act (FTA) is reversed where the district court failed to conduct an individualized FTA section 253 preemption analysis for each city's ordinance.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/03/2003
• Decided 10/12/2004
• Published 10/12/2004

Judges

• Before ALARCÓN, FERGUSON, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David Goodnight, Stoel Rives LLP;  Seattle, WA, Yana D. Koubourlis, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Seattle, WA;  Patrick Lynch, Emily Brubaker, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, CA;  Roy Adkins, Qwest Corporation, Denver, CO, for plaintiff-appellant Qwest Corporation., Pamela J. Beery, Paul C. Elsner, Berry Elsner & Hammond, LLP, Portland OR;  Kenneth A. Wittenberg, Wittenberg & Pitzer, LLP, Portland, OR, for intervenor cities of Ashland, Happy Valley, Keizer, North Plains, Pendleton, Redmond, Salem, and Springfield., William F. Gary, Jerome Lidz, Linda J. Kessel, Harrang Long Gary Rudnick P.C., Eugene, OR, for intervenor city of Eugene.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffery L. Rogers, Portland City Attorney, Harry Auerbach, Deputy City Attorney, Portland, OR;  Nicholas Miller, Joseph Van Eaton, William Malone, Miller & Van Eaton, P.L.L.C, Washington, DC, for defendant-appellee City of Portland.