United States DC Circuit

Petitioner's petition for review of an FCC order requiring local wireline telephone carriers to route calls to wireless carriers is denied, where the FCC's analysis in support of the order covered all the legally required areas, and the FCC adequately considered the order's impact on small businesses.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/26/2009
• Decided 04/28/2009
• Published 04/28/2009

Judges

• Before: GINSBURG, GARLAND and KAVANAUGH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• L. Marie Guillory argued the cause for petitioner.   With her on the briefs were Daniel Mitchell, Jill Canfield, and Karlen J. Reed.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joel Marcus, Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, argued the cause for respondent.   With him on the brief were Thomas O. Barnett, Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, Catherine G. O'Sullivan and Nancy C. Garrison, Attorneys, Matthew B. Berry, General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, Joseph R. Palmore, Deputy General Counsel, and Richard K. Welch, Acting Deputy Associate General Counsel.