Title: Wisconsin Bell, Inc. v. Public Service Commission of Wisconsin
Citation: 2005 WI 23
Docket Number: 2002AP003163
State: Wisconsin
Issuer: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Date: March 17, 2005

2005 WI 23 
 
 
 
SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN 
 
 
 
 
 
CASE NO.: 
02-3163 
COMPLETE TITLE: 
 
 
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. 
 
 
 
 
 
REVIEW OF A DECISION OF THE COURT OF APPEALS 
2004 WI App 8 
Reported at:  269 Wis. 2d 409, 675 N.W.2d 242 
(Ct. App. 2003-Published) 
 
 
OPINION FILED: 
March 17, 2005   
SUBMITTED ON BRIEFS: 
        
ORAL ARGUMENT: 
October 26, 2004   
 
 
SOURCE OF APPEAL: 
 
 
COURT: 
Circuit   
 
COUNTY: 
Milwaukee   
 
JUDGE: 
Michael P. Sullivan   
 
 
 
JUSTICES: 
 
 
CONCURRED: 
        
 
DISSENTED: 
        
 
NOT PARTICIPATING: ABRAHAMSON, C.J., did not participate.   
 
 
 
ATTORNEYS: 
 
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. 
 
 
 
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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. 
 
2005 WI 23 
NOTICE 
This opinion is subject to further 
editing and modification.  The final 
version will appear in the bound 
volume of the official reports.   
No.  02-3163   
(L.C. No. 
01 CV 11870) 
STATE OF WISCONSIN  
 
 
   : 
IN SUPREME COURT 
 
 
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. 
 
FILED 
 
MAR 17, 2005 
 
Cornelia G. Clark 
Clerk of Supreme Court 
 
 
 
 
 
REVIEW of a decision of the Court of Appeals.  Affirmed.   
 
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PER CURIAM.   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 
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affirm; JUSTICE JON P. WILCOX, JUSTICE N. PATRICK CROOKS, AND 
JUSTICE PATIENCE D. ROGGENSACK would reverse.  CHIEF JUSTICE 
SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON did not participate. 
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Accordingly, the decision of the court of appeals is 
affirmed.  
 
 
No. 02-3163  
 
 
 
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