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Tuesday, January 13, 2004

Supreme Court bars antritrust arguments in phone service lawsuits
Bernard Hibbitts at 11:24 AM ET

From the anchor desk... In another ruling handed down this morning, the US Supreme Court has held that consumers cannot invoke federal antitrust laws when claiming that regional phone companies provide substandard service to rivals. The case is Verizon v. Law Offices of Curtis V. Trinko (case backgrounder from Duke Law School's Program in Public Law). Cornell's Legal Information Institute has posted today's decision here. AP has more.



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