Legal Opinion
Law Offices of Curtis v. Trinko, L.L.P., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Bell Atlantic Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 20, 2002No. Docket 01-7746PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judge SACK concurs in part and dissents in part in a separate opinion.
KATZMANN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal of a dismissal of a class action brought on behalf of a class consisting of customers who received local phone service in the region served by Bell Atlantic from a company other than Bell Atlantic.1 In recent years, the federal government has changed its policy with respect to the structure of local phone service markets, which had been controlled by state-sanctioned local monopolies. Congress sought to introduce competition to those markets by passing the Telecommunications Act of…
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