Gulf Power Co. v. F.C.C

Full title: GULF POWER COMPANY; Alabama Power Company, et al., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL…

Court: United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit

Date published: Sep 30, 2002

307 F.3d 1317 (11th Cir. 2002)

Opinion

Nos. 98-6222, 98-6414, 98-6430, 98-6431, 98-6442, 98-6458, 98-6476 to 98-6478, 98-6485, 98-6486, 98-2589 and 98-4675.

September 30, 2002.

Walter Steimel, Jr., Greenburg Traurig, Washington, DC, Matthew J. Calvert, Marjorie K. Conner, Hunton Williams, Atlanta, GA, Daniel Brenner, Neal Morse Goldberg, Michael S. Schooler, National Cable Television Ass'n, Shirley Sachie Fujimoto, Christine M. Gill, Thomas Peter Steindler, McDermott, Will Emery, Kenneth Feree, Jonathan L. Wiener, Goldberg, Godles, Wiener Wright, Robert P. Williams, II, Charles A. Zdebski, Troutman Sanders, Washington, DC, Jean Howard, Miami, FL, Andrew W. Tunnell, Jennifer M. Buettner, John Russell Campbell, Balch Bingham, LLP, Birmingham, AL, Ralph Alan Peterson, Beggs Lane, Pensacola, FL, Jean G. Howard, Florida Power Light Co., Miami, FL, for Petitioners.

Gregory M. Christopher, FCC, John Ashcroft, U.S. Atty. Gen., Robert B. Nicholson, Robert J. Wiggers, Antitrust Div., App. Section, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Richard Bruce Beckner, Fleischman Walsh, LLP, Washington, DC, Steven D. Strickland, SBC Communications, INC., San Antonio, TX, for Respondents.

David W. Carpenter, Washington, DC, James T. Hannon, U.S. West, Inc., Denver, CO, Anthony C. Epstein, Jenner Block, Steptoe Johnson, LLP, Paul Glist, Geoffrey Charles Cook, John D. Thomas, Cole, Raywid Braverman, William Single, Washington, DC, John Francis Raposa, Verizon Communications, Inc., Arlington, VA, for Intervenors.

Petitions for Review of Orders of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC Nos. 97-151-CS, 97-151 and 98-20).

ON REMAND FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

Before TJOFLAT, CARNES and GARWOOD,^_ Circuit Judges.

_ Honorable Will L. Garwood, U.S. Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, sitting by designation.

PER CURIAM:

In Gulf Power Co. v. FCC, 208 F.3d 1263 (11th Cir. 2000), we considered an attack on the FCC's 1998 regulations, Report and Order, 13 F.C.C.R. 6777, 1998 WL 46987, promulgated pursuant to the 1996 amendments to the Pole Attachment Act, 47 U.S.C. § 224 (Supp. II 1996). We held that the facial validity of the rent formula developed by the FCC was not ripe for review, but that the FCC lacked statutory authority to regulate the wireless carriers and the provision of the Internet service under the 1996 Act. Gulf Power, 208 F.3d at 1279. The Supreme Court reversed and remanded the latter determination. See National Cable Telecommunications Association, Inc. v. Gulf Power Co., 534 U.S. 327, 122 S.Ct. 782, 151 L.Ed.2d 794 (2002). Accordingly, the FCC Order is reinstated.

SO ORDERED.