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143109P.pdf 08/14/2015 Sprint Communications Co. v. Elizabeth S. Jacobs
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 14-3109
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Smith and Benton, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Telecommunications Act of 1996. For the court's prior
opinion, see Sprint Communications Co. v. Jacobs, 690 F.3d 864 (8th Cir.
2012), reversed in Sprint Communications Co. v. Jacobs, 134 S. Ct. 584
(2013). In light of this court's holding in Iowa Network Services, Inc. v.
Qwest Corp., 363 F.3d 683 (8th Cir. 2004),the court concludes that
Congress did not intend that issue-preclusion principles bar federal-court
review of the issue involved here: whether the nomadic intrastate
long-distance VoIP calls at issue are information services, payment for
which should be governed by a reciprocal compensation agreement, or
telecommunications services subject to state access charges; reversed and
remanded for further proceedings.