Gregg Communications Systems, Inc. v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.

ORDER

BUA, District Judge.

On October 14, 1982, five plaintiffs1 filed their complaint in this antitrust action, alleging that defendants had violated Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act. (15 U.S.C. §§ 1, 2). In their complaint, plaintiffs generally alleged that commencing sometime prior to 1968, and continuing to the present, defendants combined and conspired to restrain and to monopolize trade and commerce in the manufacture, distribution, sale, rental, and lease of automatic answering devices, (most notably the Code-a-phone automatic answering device manufactured by Ford Industries), as well…