Legal Opinion
Covad Communications Co. v. Bell Atlantic Corp.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 1, 2005No. 02-7057PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GINSBURG, Chief Judge.
This appeal comes to us in the wake of Verizon Communications Inc. v. Curtis V. Trinko, LLP, 540 U.S. 398, 124 S.Ct. 872, 157 L.Ed.2d 823 (2004), in which the Supreme Court held that a complaint alleging an incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) refused to share elements of its network with a competitor, as required by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 110 Stat. 56, codified at 47 U.S.C. § 151 et seq., did not state a claim for monopolization or attempted monopolization under § 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 2. In the present case, Covad Communications Company sued…
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