UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff,
v.
WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC., et al., Defendants.
United States District Court, District of Columbia.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
October 14, 1988.
October 14, 1988.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Charles F. Rule, Asst. Atty. Gen., Antitrust Div., Deborah A. Garza, Chief of Staff and Counselor to the Asst. Atty. Gen., Antitrust Div., Barry Grossman, Chief, Communications and Finance Section, Nancy C. Garrison, Asst. Chief, Communications and Finance Section, Luin P. Fitch, Ben Giliberti, Brent E. Marshall, Communications and Finance Section, Antitrust Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for U.S.
John D. Zeglis, Francine J. Berry, Mark C. Rosenblum, American Tel. and Tel. Co., Basking Ridge, N.J., Robert D. McLean, American Tel. and Tel. Co., Washington, D.C., Howard J. Trienens, David W. Carpenter, American Tel. and Tel. Co., Chicago, Ill., for American Tel. & Tel.
Thomas P. Hester, Alan N. Baker, Ameritech, Chicago, Ill., Alfred Winchell Whittaker, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, D.C., for Ameritech.
James R. Young, John M. Goodman, Jane C. Luxton, Bell Atlantic, Washington, D.C. (Robert A. Levetown, Mark J. Mathis, of counsel), for Bell Atlantic.
Walter H. Alford, Executive Vice President and Gen. Counsel, Mark D. Hallenbeck, Gen. Atty., BellSouth Corp., Atlanta, Ga., W.M. Booker, Vice President and Gen. Counsel, South Cent. Bell Telephone, J. Robert Fitzgerald, Vice President and Gen. Counsel, Southern Bell Tel. and Tel., of counsel), for BellSouth Corp.
John R. Worthington, Sr. Vice President and Gen. Counsel, MCI Communications Corp., Washington, D.C., Chester T. Kamin, Michael H. Salsbury, Thomas S. Martin, Anthony C. Epstein, Glenn B. Manishin, Carl S. Nadler, John T. Nakahata, Jenner & Block, Washington, D.C., for MCI.
Saul Fisher, Mary McDermott, Richard A. Visconti, William J. Balcerski, NYNEX Corp., White Plains, N.Y., Martin J. Silverman, NYNEX Corp., Washington, D.C., for NYNEX Corp.
Richard W. Odgers, Randall E. Cape, Carol Elizabeth Frizzell, San Francisco, Cal., Stanley J. Moore, Washington, D.C., for Pacific Telesis.
Liam S. Coonan, Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., Washington, D.C., William C. Sullivan, Linda S. Legg, Walter O. Theiss, Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., St. Louis, Mo., for Southwestern Bell.
Dana A. Rasmussen, Jeffrey S. Bork, U S West, Inc., David I. Shapiro, Richard C. Schramm, Geoffrey Bestor, Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, Washington, D.C. (Laurence W. DeMuth, Jr., Stuart S. Gunckel, David S. Sather, of counsel), for US West, Inc.
Leon M. Kestenbaum, Michael B. Fingerhut, Washington, D.C., for U.S. Sprint Communications Co.
United States District Court, District of Columbia.
OPINION
HAROLD H. GREENE, District Judge.
The issues before the Court concern Regional Company practices with respect to so-called "calling cards," that is, telephone credit cards, and with respect to telephones owned by the Regional Companies that are located in public places (e.g., airports, service stations, street corners). Unlike many of the recent controversies in this case, the current issues do not involve the line of business restrictions...
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