Legal Opinion
United States v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided February 28, 1983No. Civ. A. Nos. 74-1698, 82-0192. Misc. No. 82-0025(PI)PublishedCited by 376 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HAROLD H. GREENE, District Judge.
These actions are before the Court 1 for a determination whether a consent decree proposed by the parties is in the “public interest” 2 and should therefore be entered as the Court’s judgment. Over six hundred comments from interested persons, many of them objecting to various aspects of the proposal, have been received, and the Court has considered briefs submitted by the parties and others, and it has heard extensive oral argument. This opinion discusses the principal questions raised by these interested persons, and it embodies the Court’s decision…
2Cases cited134 opinions
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- Pepper v. LittonSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
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3Cited by376 opinions
- Grupo Mexicano De Desarrollo, S. A. v. Alliance Bond Fund, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1999
- Susan Mary Kamen v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co., Patricia McDonald and Carol BuckhamCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1986
- MCI Communications Corporation and MCI Telecommunications Corporation v. American Telephone and Telegraph CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1983
- In Re MCI Telecommunications ComplaintMichigan Supreme Court · 1999
- Nynex Corp. v. Discon, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1998
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