In Re Universal Service Fund Telephone Billing Practices Litigation

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

LUNGSTRUM, District Judge.

This multidistrict litigation consists of numerous putative class action lawsuits arising from the practices of defendants AT & T Corporation and Sprint Communications Company, L.P. and non-parties MCI WORLDCOM Network Services, Inc. and MCI WorldCom Communications, Inc. (collectively MCI) of charging their customers to recoup their contributions to the federal Universal Service Fund (USF) program. Plaintiffs are customers or former customers of defendants and MCI who allege that defendants and MCI engaged in an illegal scheme of conspiring to…