United States Ninth Circuit

An incumbent local exchange carrier's challenge to nominally "interim" rates for access to its network by competitive local exchange carriers is ripe for judicial review when such rates are not subject to later adjustment by the state utilites commission.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/12/2005
• Decided 07/06/2005
• Published 07/06/2005

Judges

• NOONAN, Circuit Judge:, Before: NOONAN, BEA, Circuit Judges, and JONES, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Henry Weissmann, Burton A. Gross, John P. Hunt and Rosemarie T. Ring, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for plaintiff-appellant Verizon California Inc.


• For Appellees:
  
• Randolph L. Wu, Mary F. McKenzie and Kimberly J. Lippi, San Francisco, CA, for defendants-appellees Michael R. Peevey, Loretta M. Lynch, Carl W. Wood, Geoffrey F. Brown and Susan P. Kennedy in their official capacities as Commissioners of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California., Catherine M. Barrad and Randolph W. Deutsch, Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood LLP, San Francisco, CA, and David J. Miller, AT & T Communications of California, Inc., San Francisco, CA, for intervenor/defendant-appellee AT & T Communications of California, Inc., Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Michael B. DeSanctis and Daniel Mach, Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, D.C., and Jeffrey A. Rackow, MCI, Inc., Washington, D.C., for intervenors/defendants-appellees MCI WorldCom Communications, Inc. and MCIMetro Access Transmission Services LLC.