United States Ninth Circuit

In an action challenging an arbitration order under Section 252 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, summary judgment for Plaintiff is affirmed, where state commissions may not impose access or pricing requirements under Section 271 of the Act in the course of arbitrating interconnection agreements.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/15/2009
• Decided 06/08/2009
• Published 06/08/2009

Judges

• CLIFTON, Circuit Judge:, Before:  D.W. NELSON and RICHARD R. CLIFTON, Circuit Judges, and SAMUEL P. KING, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paul K. Mancini, San Antonio, TX;  Michael E. Glover, Arlington, VA;  Colin S. Stretch, Scott H. Angstreich, and Kelly P. Dunbar (argued), Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae AT & T, Inc. and Verizon.


• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher C. Kempley and Maureen A. Scott (argued), Arizona Corporation Commission Legal Division, Phoenix, AZ;  John Matthew Derstine and Michael Patten, Roshka DeWulf & Patten, Phoenix, AZ;  Gregory T. Diamond, General Counsel for Covad Communications Company, Denver, CO;  Jason M. Wakefield (argued), San Jose, CA, for the defendants-appellants., John Michael Devaney (argued), Perkins Coie, Washington, D.C.;  Steven J. Monde, Perkins Coie Brown & Bain, Phoenix, AZ, for the plaintiff-appellee.