Legal Opinion
Dassinger v. South Central Bell Telephone Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 20, 1974No. 74-2171PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Per curiam
Plaintiff-appellant Dassinger owns and operates a modeling and motion picture studio in New Orleans, Louisiana. At various times between December 1, 1970, and September 80, 1971, potential clients contacted defendant-appellee South Central Bell's [Bell’s] directory assistance service and asked for plaintiff’s business number. Dassinger alleges that the Bell operators on several of those occasions refused to impart the requested information, on the ground that the number was a semi-private one which could not be given out to the general public. After some of these frustrated customers…
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