United States Fourth Circuit

Where a complaint alleges only breaches of duties that did not exist prior to enactment of the Telecommunications Act and would not have supported a claim of monopolization or attempted monopolization, it has failed to state a claim under section 2 of the Sherman Act, and the state analogue.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/20/2003
• Published 05/20/2003

Judges

• Before WIDENER and NIEMEYER, Circuit Judges, and GREENBERG, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED: David William Carpenter, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Illinois, for Appellant.  Richard Gary Taranto, Farr & Taranto, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.   ON BRIEF: Stephen T. Perkins, Alan M. Shoer, Donald F. Lynch, III, Cavalier Telephone, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellant.  John Thorne, Christopher M. Arfaa, Verizon, Arlington, Virginia;  Anne Marie Whittemore, Richard Cullen, Robert Michael Tyler, McGuirewoods, L.L.P., Richmond, Virginia;  Mark C. Hansen, Aaron M. Panner, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans, P.L.L.C., Washington, D.C.;  Andrew Gerald McBride, Wiley, Rein & Fielding, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellee.  Margaret A. Robbins, Antony Richard Petrilla, Covad Communications Company, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Covad.  Jonathan M. Askin, Association for Local Telecommunications Services, Washington, D.C.;  David L. Lawson, Ryan D. Nelson, Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, L.L.P., Washington, D.C.;  Mark C. Rosenblum, Lawrence J. Lafaro, AT & T Corporation, Basking Ridge, New Jersey, for Amici Curiae AT & T, et al.  Lawrence E. Sarjeant, Indra Sehdev Chalk, Robin E. Tuttle, United States Telecom Association, Washington, D.C.;   James F. Rill, Scott E. Flick, Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White, L.L.P., Washington, D.C.;  Sanford M. Litvack, Dewey Ballantine, L.L.P., New York, New York;  James R. Young, Hunton & Williams, McLean, Virginia;  Kimberly A. Newman, Hunton & Williams, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae U.S. Telecom.  Michael W. McConnell, Salt Lake City, Utah;  Marc Gary, J. Henry Walker, Marc W.F. Galonsky, BellSouth Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia;  Stephen M. Shapiro, Jeffrey W. Sarles, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Chicago, Illinois;  James D. Ellis, William M. Schur, SBC Communications, Inc., San Antonio, Texas, for Amici Curiae BellSouth, et al.