United States Second Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff-consumers' putative class action, alleging local telephone and high-speed Internet service conspiracies, is vacated and remanded where the district court applied the wrong standard in reviewing the sufficiency of the plaintiffs' allegations.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/04/2005
• Published 10/04/2005

Judges

• SACK, Circuit Judge., Before:  SACK, RAGGI, and HALL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• J. Douglas Richards, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP (Michael M. Buchman, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP, New York, NY;  Richard S. Schiffrin, Joseph H. Meltzer, Krishna Narine, Schiffrin & Barroway, LLP, Bala Cynwyd, PA;  of counsel), New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark C. Hansen, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans, P.L.L.C. (Michael K. Kellogg, Sean A. Lev, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC;  Paul K. Mancini, William M. Schur, SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX;  John Thorne, Robert J. Zastrow, Verizon Communications Inc., Arlington, VA;  Jay P. Lefkowitz, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY;  Hector Gonzalez, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, New York, NY;  Richard J. Favretto, Miriam R. Nemetz, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, Washington, DC;  J. Henry Walker, Marc W.F. Galonsky, Ashley Watson, BellSouth Corporation, Atlanta, GA;  Peter K. Vigeland, Wilmer Cutler Pickering LLP, New York, NY;  William J. Kolasky, Wilmer Cutler Pickering LLP, Washington, DC;  Timothy M. Boucher, Qwest Communications International, Inc., Denver, CO;  of counsel), Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.