Wisconsin Bell, Inc. v. PUBLIC SERVICE COM'N, 02-3163.
| Decision Date | 17 March 2005 |
| Docket Number | No. 02-3163.,02-3163. |
| Citation | 279 Wis.2d 1,693 N.W.2d 301,2005 WI 23 |
| Parties | WISCONSIN BELL, INC., (d/b/a Ameritech Wisconsin), a Wisconsin corporation, Petitioner-Respondent Cross-Appellant-Petitioner, v. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF WISCONSIN, Respondent-Appellant-Cross-Respondent, SPRINT TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC., Excel Telecommunications, Inc., and AT&T Communications of Wisconsin L.P., Co-Appellants-Cross-Respondents. |
| Court | Wisconsin Supreme Court |
For the petitioner-respondent-cross-appellant-petitioner there were briefs by John E. Flanagan, Jordan J. Hemaidan and Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP, Madison, and oral argument by John E. Flanagan.
For the respondent-appellant-cross-respondent there was a brief by Diane M. Ramthun, Steven Levine and the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, Madison, and oral argument by Diane M. Ramthun.
For the co-appellants-cross-respondents there was a brief by Peter L. Gardon, Stephen J. Liccione and Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren, S.C., Madison (on behalf of Excel Telecommunications and Sprint Communications, Inc., L.P.); and by Arthur J. LeVasseur and Fischer, Franklin & Ford, Detroit, MI (on behalf of AT&T Communications of Wisconsin, L.P.), and oral argument by Stephen J. Liccione.
¶ 1.
The court is equally divided on the question of whether the published decision of the court of appeals, Wisconsin Bell, Inc. v. Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, 2004 WI App 8, 269 Wis. 2d 409, 675 N.W.2d 242, should be affirmed or reversed. JUSTICE ANN WALSH BRADLEY, JUSTICE DAVID T. PROSSER, and JUSTICE LOUIS B. BUTLER, JR. would affirm; JUSTICE JON P. WILCOX, JUSTICE N. PATRICK CROOKS, and JUSTICE PATIENCE D. ROGGENSACK would reverse. CHIEF JUSTICE SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON did not participate.
¶ 2. Accordingly, the decision of the court of appeals is affirmed.
1. Motion for Reconsideration denied 6-23-2005.
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