A battle between phone companies and governments over a potential $100 million bill for emergency call fees ran into extra minutes at the Georgia Court of Appeals Tuesday. Presiding Justice Stephen Dillard twice granted additional time to both sides for oral arguments.
The case is an appeal from BellSouth, AT&T and EarthLink seeking to overturn Gwinnett County Superior Court Judge Randy Rich’s denial of the companies’ motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the governments of two suburban counties, Cobb and Gwinnett. The counties sued the phone companies over the right to audit records in search of $50 million in alleged unpaid fees— and are seeking to combine their lawsuit with others around the state, raising the stakes to about $100 million for three years of allegedly uncollected and unpaid fees.
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