Harriet Alicke v. MCI Communications Corporation

GINSBURG, Circuit Judge.

Harriet Alicke brought this class action against MCI Communications Corporation for allegedly deceiving its residential customers by reporting their long- distance telephone calls in full-minute increments on their bills. Specifically, like most other telephone companies, MCI rounds up the length of each long-distance telephone call to the next full minute for the purpose of billing. The appellant does not challenge the reasonableness of MCI’s rounding up, nor dispute that MCI fully discloses this practice in its federal and state tariffs; rather, she contends that…