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IN RE ILLINOIS BELL SWITCHING STAT. LIT.

No. 73999.

641 N.E.2d 440 (1994)

161 Ill.2d 233

204 Ill.Dec. 216

In re ILLINOIS BELL SWITCHING STATION LITIGATION.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing Denied October 3, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward T. Joyce & Associates (Arthur W. Aufman and Paul A. Castiglione, of counsel), William J. Harte, Ltd., and Karla Wright, Ltd., Chicago, and Vincent L. DiTommaso, DiTommaso & Berman, P.C., Oak Brook Terrace, for appellants certain customers of Illinois Bell Telephone Co.

Susan P. Jordan, Lord, Bissell & Brook, and Edward A. Butts and John C. Gockley, Jr., Chicago, Kenneth W. Starr and Christopher Landau, Washington, D.C., and Frank Cicero, Jr., Emily Nicklin, J. Andrew Langan, Walter R. Lancaster and Michelle H. Browdy, Chicago, Kirkland & Ellis, for appellee Illinois Bell Telephone Co.

Gerald A. Ambrose and George A. Platz III, Sidley & Austin, and Thomas R. Phillips and Larry Salustro, Chicago, for amicus curiae AT & T Communications of Illinois, Inc.

Dennis K. Muncy and Peggy C. Thompson, Meyer, Capel, Hirschfeld, Muncy, Jahn & Aldeen, P.C., Champaign, for amicus curiae Illinois Independent Telephone Association.

Justice HEIPLE delivered the opinion of the court:

This case arose after a telephone switching station caught fire, allegedly due to the negligent or willful failure of Illinois Bell Telephone Company to take adequate fire-prevention measures. The fire left the affected class (plaintiffs) without telephone services for about a month. Plaintiffs now seek to recover the economic damages they incurred from that loss of service...

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