A.T. & T. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 74.

299 U.S. 232 (1936)

AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO. ET AL. v. UNITED STATES ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 7, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William D. Mitchell, with whom Messrs. C.M. Bracelen, Alan J. McBean, Charles T. Russell, and Edward L. Blackman were on the brief, for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. et al., appellants.

Mr. Allen T. Klots, with whom Mr. G. Schuyler Tarbell, Jr., was on the brief, for Ohio Associated Telephone Co. et al., appellants.

Assistant Attorney General Dickinson, with whom Solicitor General Reed and Mr. Charles H. Weston were on the brief, for the United States, appellee.

Messrs. Hampson Gary, Frank Roberson, and W.D. Humphrey submitted for the Federal Communications Commission, appellee.

Mr. John E. Benton, with whom Mr. Clyde S. Bailey was on the brief, for the National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners, appellee.


MR. JUSTICE CARDOZO delivered the opinion of the Court.

This suit was brought in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York to set aside an order of the Federal Communications Commission prescribing a uniform system of accounts for telephone companies subject to the Communications Act of 1934. Act of June 19, 1934, c. 652, 48 Stat. 1064; 47 U.S.C. § 151. The plaintiffs are forty-four telephone companies, thirty-seven of them members...

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