TELECOR COMMUNICATIONS v. SOUTHWESTERN BELL

Nos. 01-6067, 01-6138.

305 F.3d 1124 (2002)

TELECOR COMMUNICATIONS, INC., an Oklahoma corporation; Advanced Communications, Inc., an Oklahoma corporation; Coinlink LLC, an Oklahoma limited liability company; Jack Keeler, d/b/a Americall; Kenneth Meritt, d/b/a Oklahoma Heartland Payphone Services; Don Owens, d/b/a Owens Communications Company; Payphone Plus LLC, an Oklahoma limited liability company; Redlands Communications, Inc., an Oklahoma corporation; and Sooner Telecommunications, Inc., an Oklahoma corporation; Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, a Missouri corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

September 10, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald L. Flexner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, Washington DC (D. Kent Meyers and Richard C. Ford, Crowe & Dunlevy, Oklahoma City, OK, Scott E. Gant, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, Washington, DC, and David A. Barrett, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, New York, NY, with him on the briefs), for Defendant-Appellant.

Robert D. Edinger (Jonathan E. Miller and Linda G. Kaufmann, with him on the briefs), Edinger & Blakley, P.C., Oklahoma City, OK, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Before EBEL and KELLY, Circuit Judges, and WINDER, Senior District Judge.


EBEL, Circuit Judge.

Southwestern Bell Telephone Company appeals from a jury verdict finding it guilty of monopolistic behavior in violation of Oklahoma state law and assessing damages of over $7 million, trebled to over $20 million. At issue is Southwestern Bell's domination of the Oklahoma pay phone market, a market it legally monopolized, under the oversight of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC), until November 1996. The plaintiffs are nine independent pay...

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