Legal Opinion
ITT World Communications Inc. v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided October 22, 1981No. 80 Civ. 5745(MEL)PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LASKER, District Judge.
Plaintiffs, three subsidiaries of the International Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1 allege that Western Union (“WU”) has violated and continues to violate Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1,2, by 1) refusing to interconnect with plaintiffs’ domestic and international telex transmission lines, 2) using its monopoly over domestic telex service to gain a competitive advantage in the provision of international service, and 3) entering into a contract with TRT, an international telex carrier, assuring TRT at least 50,000,000 minutes of outbound…
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- Far East Conference v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
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