ITT WORLD COMMUNICATIONS v. W. U. TEL. CO.

No. 80 Civ. 5745(MEL).

524 F.Supp. 702 (1981)

ITT WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC., ITT Domestic Transmission Systems, Inc., and O. M. Scott & Sons, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY, Defendant.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

October 22, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, New York City, for plaintiffs; Grant S. Lewis, John S. Kinzey, Frederick R. Dettmer, Kim H. Sperduto, Joseph J. Jacobs, Theodore J. Fischkin and Susan I. Littman, New York City, of counsel.

William Warfield Ross, Steven K. Yablonski, Mark Schattner, A. Richard Metzger, Jr., Jane Seigler, Wald, Harkrader & Ross, Washington, D. C., Ernest Walton, New York City, for defendant; John D. Appel, Vice President-Gen. Counsel, W. U. Tel. Co., Upper Saddle River, N. J., Joel Yohalem, Gen. Solicitor, W. U. Tel. Co., Washington, D. C., Milton J. Grossman, Washington, D. C., of counsel.


LASKER, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, three subsidiaries of the International Telephone and Telegraph Company,1 allege that Western Union ("WU") has violated and continues to violate Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1, 2, by 1) refusing to interconnect with plaintiffs' domestic and international telex transmission lines, 2) using its monopoly over domestic telex service to gain a competitive advantage in the provision...

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