YELLOW PAGES COST CONSULTANTS v. GTE DIRECTORIES

No. 89-15796.

951 F.2d 1158 (1991)

YELLOW PAGES COST CONSULTANTS, INC.; Media Masters, Inc.; Tel-Ad Advisors, Inc.; Southern Directory Consultants, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. GTE DIRECTORIES CORPORATION; GTE Directories Sales Corporation; GTE National Marketing Services Corporation; GTE Directories Publishing Corporation; GTE Directories Printing Corporation; GTE Marketworld, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided December 24, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Kaleta, Swidler & Berlin, Washington, D.C., Joel Linzner, Khourie, Crew & Jaeger, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants.

C. Douglas Floyd, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Before: FLETCHER, NORRIS and NOONAN, Circuit Judges.


WILLIAM A. NORRIS, Circuit Judge:

Defendants-Appellees GTE Directories and related corporations ("GTE") publish yellow pages directories. In those areas where it publishes the yellow pages directory as the local phone company, GTE occupies a huge market share of the yellow pages advertising market: over 98% in Anchorage, Oahu, and Tampa; 95% in Las Vegas; 77.2% in Long Beach, California. GTE salespersons offer advertisers advice on the form and content of their advertisements...

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