PHONETELE, INC. v. AMERICAN TEL. & TEL. CO.

Nos. 77-3877, 77-2936.

664 F.2d 716 (1981)

PHONETELE, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY; Western Electric Company, Incorporated; Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, Defendants-Appellees. DASA CORPORATION, etc., Appellant, v. GENERAL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submission Ordered Vacated November 20, 1979.

Reargued and Resubmitted February 6, 1980.

Decided December 3, 1981.

As Amended March 15, 1982.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied March 31, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald L. Bauer, McGuire & Bauer, Tustin, Cal., for DASA Corp.

Ron Landsman, John H. Shenefield, Robert B. Nicholson, Washington, D. C., amicus curiae, for United States.

Paul S. Sigelman, Rick M. Stein, Sigelman & Stein, Beverly Hills, Cal., for Phonetele, Inc.

Robert J. White, O'Melveny & Myers, Los Angeles, Cal., C. Daniel Ward, Stamford, Conn., Dezendorf, Spears & Lubersky, Portland, Or., Robert G. Lane, Charles Bender, Paul, Hastings & Janofsky, Los Angeles, Cal., for General Telephone Co. of Cal., etc.

Frank Rothman, Wyman, Bautzer, Rothman & Kuchel, Los Angeles, Cal., George L. Saunders, Jr., Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Ill., Harold S. Levy, New York City, for American Telephone & Telegraph Co., etc.

Before KENNEDY and FLETCHER, Circuit Judges, and CLAIBORNE, District Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied March 31, 1982.

KENNEDY, Circuit Judge:

These consolidated appeals present to this circuit the question whether a telephone company may be sued for damages and injunctive relief for attempting to monopolize and restrain trade in the distribution and sale of telephone terminal equipment.1 The case requires us to reconcile the antitrust laws with the...

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