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SOUND, INC. v. AMERICAN TEL. AND TEL. CO.

No. 80-1047.

631 F.2d 1324 (1980)

SOUND, INC., Appellee, v. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., Western Electric Company, Inc. and Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided August 25, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey Kurzweil, Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, New York City, for appellants; Joseph Angland and Robert W. Hirth, New York City, and Nyemaster, Goode, McLaughlin, Emery & O'Brien, Des Moines, Iowa, on brief.

Donald Polden, Hawkins & Norris, Des Moines, Iowa, for appellee; Lex Hawkins and Glenn L. Norris, Des Moines, Iowa, on brief.

Ron M. Landsman, Atty., Appellate Section, Antitrust Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for amicus curiae U. S.; Sanford M. Litvack, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert B. Nicholson, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on brief.

Before HEANEY and ARNOLD, Circuit Judges, and VIETOR, District Judge.

HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

This case presents the difficult problem of reconciling the pro-competitive policies of the antitrust laws with federal and state regulation protecting the public interest in the context of the terminal telephone equipment market.

Sound, Inc., an Iowa corporation, brought this antitrust action against the Bell System (Bell), American Telephone and Telegraph Company and its subsidiaries, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Western Electric Company...

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