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GOLDWASSER v. AMERITECH CORP.

No. 98-1439.

222 F.3d 390 (2000)

Richard GOLDWASSER, et al., individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. AMERITECH CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 25, 2000

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. Bershad, Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach, New York, NY, Marvin A. Miller, Dom Rizzi (argued), Miller, Faucher, Cafferty & Wexler, Chicago, IL, Leonard B. Simon, Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach, San Diego, CA, Bernard Persky, Goodkind, Labaton, Rudoff & Suchrow, New York, NY, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Stephen M. Shapiro (argued), Theodore A. Livingston, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Jay Tyson Covey, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, IL, for defendant-appellee.

Darryl M. Bradford, Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, for amicus curiae MCI Worldcom, Inc.

Mark L. Evans, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen & Todd, Lawrence E. Sarjeant, Washington, DC, for amicus curiae U.S. Telephone Association.

Before RIPPLE, DIANE P. WOOD, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996, Pub.L. 104-104, 110 Stat. 56 (1996), codified at 47 U.S.C. § 151 et seq., represents a comprehensive effort by Congress to bring the benefits of deregulation and competition to all aspects of the telecommunications market in the United States, including especially local markets. But progress and change in such a complex industry do not occur overnight, and Congress accordingly entrusted...

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