Sprint Communications, Inc. v. Jacobs (571 U.S. 69)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided December 10, 2013 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 571 U.S. 69 · 134 S. Ct. 584
- Decided
- December 10, 2013
- Term
- October Term 2013
- Vote
- 9–0
- Majority author
- Justice Ginsburg
- Issue area
- Judicial Power
- Disposition
- Reversed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Liberal
Opinion excerpt
(Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2013 1 Syllabus NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U. S. 321 , 337. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Syllabus SPRINT COMMUNICATIONS, INC. v. JACOBS ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT No. 12–815. Argued November 5, 2013—Decided December 10, 2013 Sprint Communications, Inc. (Sprint), a national telecommunications service provider, withheld payment of intercarrier access fees im- posed by Windstream Iowa Communications, Inc. (Windstream), a lo- cal telecommunications carrier, for long distance Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls, after concluding that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 preempted intrastate regulation of VoIP traffic. Wind- stream responded by threatening to block all Sprint customer calls, which led Sprint to ask the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) to enjoin Windstream from discontinuing service to Sprint. Windstream re- tracted its threat, and Sprint moved to withdraw its complaint. Con- cerned that the dispute would recur, the IUB continued the proceed- ings in order to…
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