U.S. v. WESTERN ELEC. CO., INC.

Civ. A. No. 82-0192.

673 F.Supp. 525 (1987)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

September 10, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles F. Rule, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Barry Grossman, Chief, Communications and Finance Section, Nancy C. Garrison, Asst. Chief, Communications and Finance Section, Edward T. Hand, Asst. Chief, Foreign Commerce Section, Ben Giliberti, Atty., Antitrust Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for U.S. Dept. of Justice.

John D. Zeglis, Jim G. Kilpatric, Francine J. Berry, Basking Ridge, N.J., Howard J. Trienens, David W. Carpenter, Chicago, Ill., Ben W. Heineman, Jr., Sidley & Austin, Washington, D.C., for AT & T.

Thomas P. Hester, John Thorne, Jeffrey J. Kennedy, David P. Boyd, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, Ill., Donald E. Scott, Alfred Winchell Whittaker, Katherine C. Zeitlin, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, D.C., for Ameritech.

Robert A. Levetown, John M. Goodman, James R. Young, Washington, D.C., for Bell Atlantic.

Norman C. Frost, Mark D. Hallenbeck, Atlanta, Ga., Abott B. Lipsky, Jr., King & Spalding, Washington, D.C., for BellSouth.

Raymond F. Burke, Gerald E. Murray, Mary McDermott, Melvin A. Cohen, White Plains, N.Y., for NYNEX.

Robert V.R. Dalenberg, Paul H. White, Kathy A. Hackmann, Richard W. Odgers, Mary Cranston, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, Cal., Rex G. Mitchell, Reno, Nev., Stanley J. Moore, Washington, D.C., for Pacific Telesis Group.

Edgar Mayfield, James S. Golden, Mary Whitten Marks, Gregory J. Christoffel, St. Louis, Mo., Liam S. Coonan, Washington, D.C., for Southwestern Bell Corp.

David I. Shapiro, Richard C. Schramm, James vanR. Springer, Joel B. Kleinman, Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, Washington, D.C. (Laurence W. DeMuth, Jr., Stuart S. Gunckel, David S. Sather, Alan J. Gardner, Cameron R. Graham, of counsel), for U S West, Inc.

Chester T. Kamin, Thomas S. Martin, Michael H. Salsbury, Anthony C. Epstein, Glenn B. Manishin, Christopher S. Vaden, Carl S. Nadler, Jenner & Block, John R. Worthington, Senior Vice President and Gen. Counsel, Washington, D.C., for MCI.


OPINION

HAROLD H. GREENE, District Judge.

Following the submission of a report from the Department of Justice, in accordance with the Court's Opinion of August 11, 1982 which approved the consent decree,1 a number of motions were filed which collectively sought removal of all the line of business restrictions embodied in section II(D) of the decree.2 That section provides as follows:

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