MCI TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION v. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY (1994)

MCI TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION v. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
	Term: 1993
Important Dates
	Argued: March 21, 1994
	Decided: June 17, 1994
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	5-3
Majority
	Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
	Harry Blackmun • David Souter • John Paul Stevens

MCI TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION v. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 17, 1994. The case was argued before the court on March 21, 1994.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit (includes the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia but not the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, which has local jurisdiction).

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal and some few state regulations of public utilities regulation: telephone or telegraph company
Petitioner: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 512 U.S. 218
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
Who wrote the majority opinion: Antonin Scalia

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as conservative.