Econ, Inc. v. Illinois Bell Telephone Company

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

TONE, District Judge.

This action was filed by the plaintiff, Econ, Inc., against the defendant, Illinois Bell Telephone Company in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. Illinois Bell removed the case to this Court and joined the United States as a third party defendant. The plaintiff asserts that it is a common carrier and seeks, on its own behalf and as representative of a class of all other Illinois common carriers, the return of monies collected by the defendant and remitted to the United States as a federal excise tax on certain telephonic communications.…