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051170P.pdf   12/29/2005  Ace Telephone Assoc.  v.  Leroy Koppendrayer
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  05-1170
                          and No:  05-1171
   District of Minnesota   
   [PUBLISHED] [Arnold, Author, with Hansen and Gruender, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - Telecommunications Regulation. District court erred in
   finding that the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission had acted in an
   arbitrary and capricious fashion in setting the reciprocal compensation
   rate carriers pay each other for terminating calls at $0.00; the
   Commission did not err in looking to previous proceedings concerning
   network-element charges to determine the appropriate reciprocal
   compensation rate; the district court also erred in finding that a zero
   reciprocal compensation rate would violate the Telecommunications Act
   of 1996; further, once the Commission ordered Qwest to charge only a
   fixed per-line rate for end-office switching, the Act precluded it from
   imposing anything other than a zero charge.