Sollenbarger v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co.

OPINION AND ORDER

THEIS, District Judge.

This matter comes before the court on plaintiffs’ motion for certification of a plaintiff class under Fed.R.Civ.P. 23(b)(3) and defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiffs’ pendent state law claim. The proposed class includes all present and past customers of Mountain Bell (“MB”) who contracted for inside wire maintenance service (“IWMS”) between 1982 and the present. Dkt. no. 47, H 8(a). Plaintiffs contend MB monopolized IWMS in violation of § 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 2, and that IWMS contracts are void or voidable under state contract law. The…