Sprint Communications Co. v. Jacobs, No. 16-1417 (8th Cir. 2017)
Annotate this CaseThe Eighth Circuit held that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 preempted the Iowa Utilities Board's authority to compel Sprint to pay intrastate access charges to Windstream. Accordingly, the court affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment for the Board and Windstream and its determination that the Act preserved the Board's authority and that Sprint was not entitled to declaratory or injunctive relief.
Court Description: Wollman, Author, with Murphy and Colloton, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Telecommunications Act of 1996. For the court's prior opinions in the matter, see Sprint Commc'ns Co. v. Jacobs, 690 F.3d 864 (8th Cir. 2012) and Sprint Commc'ns Co. v. Jacobs, 798 F.3d 705 (8th Cir. 2015). The Act does not preempt the Iowa Utility Board's authority to compel Sprint to pay intrastate access charges to Windstream for its delivery of the nonnomadic, intrastate long-distance VIOP calls at issue.
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