Rochester, NY 8/27/2009 9:47:51 PM
AT&T from a rocky road
AT&T Inc.
A proposed settlement from Southern North Dakota rancher towards AT&T has been reached, accused by the rancher, the telecommunications company of trampling private property rights because fiber optic cable had been buried in roadside ditches. The settlement, which still must be approved by a judge, calls for property owners east of Dickinson to be paid 75 cents per foot of cable buried in roadway ditches. In return, AT&T would get easements allowing it to maintain cable in the ditches in an area about 11 miles long.
Dickinson-area rancher Don Gerber as a proposed class action, meaning it would include other property owners if a judge approved, filed the lawsuit against AT&T CORP. and AT&T COMMUNICATIONS-EAST INC. in federal court in Bismarck last September. It said AT&T did not obtain the proper permission from landowners when it laid underground cable on private property, including on land for which governments — state, county or township — have easements for roads. .
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