Court Opinion

ID: 9722110
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 09:16:54.200776+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:30.667419
License: Public Domain

*129AMUNDSON, Justice
(concurring specially)-
I concur in total with the majority’s position on Issue I that there is no statutory authority for the establishment of a monopoly for the benefit of SDN. . .
On Issue II, I concur with the understanding of the majority position being that the PUC can require USWC to connect its lines to SDN’s exchange, but this does not foreclose USWC from using its own facilities for carrying its generated traffic to the SDN member exchanges already in place. Otherwise, would we not be granting á monopoly to SDN.
Finally, I concur on Issue III to the extent that USWC should be allowed to seek compensation for any regulatory taking for so long as the monopoly granted by the PUC was in effect.