Legal Opinion
Telecor Communications, Inc. v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided September 10, 2002No. 01-6067, 01-6138PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EBEL, Circuit Judge.
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company appeals from a jury verdict finding it guilty of monopolistic behavior in violation of Oklahoma state law and assessing damages of over $7 million, trebled to over $20 million. At issue is Southwestern Bell’s domination of the Oklahoma pay phone market, a market it legally monopolized, under the oversight of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC), until November 1996. The plaintiffs are nine independent pay phone service providers whose efforts to compete with Southwestern Bell succeeded only in whittling down the latter’s market…
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