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AMBASSADOR, INC. v. UNITED STATES

No. 446.

325 U.S. 317 (1945)

AMBASSADOR, INC. ET AL. v. UNITED STATES ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 21, 1945.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Parker McCollester, with whom Messrs. George deForest Lord and Joseph W. Wyatt were on the brief, for appellants.

Solicitor General Fahy, with whom Messrs. Chester T. Lane, Charles R. Denny, Harry M. Plotkin and Joseph M. Kittner were on the brief, for the United States; and Mr. T. Brooke Price, with whom Messrs. Spencer Gordon, John T. Quisenberry, John H. Ray and R.A. Van Orsdel were on the brief, for the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., appellees.

MR. JUSTICE JACKSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

This action was instituted at request of the Federal Communications Commission in the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia. The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., which is engaged in rendering telephone service in the District of Columbia, and the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. were made defendants, as also were the appellants, comprising the proprietors of twenty-seven...

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