LAW OFFICES v. BELL ATLANTIC CORP.

No. 01-7746.

305 F.3d 89 (2002)

LAW OFFICES OF CURTIS V. TRINKO, L.L.P., individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BELL ATLANTIC CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: June 20, 2002.

Amended: August 14, 2002.

Errata Filed: August 30, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph P. Garland, Klein & Solomon, LLP, New York, NY (Alicia McInerney, Peter S. Linden, Kirby McInerney & Squire, LLP, New York, NY, Kenneth A. Elan, New York, NY, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

John Thorne, Verizon Communications, Arlington, VA (Richard G. Taranto, Farr & Taranto, Washington, DC, Marc C. Hansen, Aaron M. Panner, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans, Washington, DC, Henry B. Gutman, Joseph F. Tringali, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, New York, NY, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: SACK, KATZMANN, and B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.


Judge SACK concurs in part and dissents in part in a separate opinion.

KATZMANN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal of a dismissal of a class action brought on behalf of a class consisting of customers who received local phone service in the region served by Bell Atlantic from a company other than Bell Atlantic.1 In recent years, the federal government has changed its policy with respect to the structure of local phone service markets...

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