United States Ninth Circuit

In a suit alleging defendant maintained a monopoly over the market for small business telephone services, summary judgment in favor of defendant is affirmed where its change in pricing in order to eliminate arbitrage does not amount to exclusionary conduct.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/24/2004
• Published 09/24/2004

Judges

• FISHER, Circuit Judge:, Before BROWNING, FISHER and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James L. Phillips, Miller Nash LLP, Seattle, WA, for the plaintiffs-appellants., Jonathan M. Askin, Association for Local Telecommunications Services, Washington, D.C., and James E. Hartley, Thomas P. Howard and Thorvald A. Nelson, Holland & Hart LLP, Denver, CO, for amicus curiae Association for Local Telecommunications Services.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas L. Boeder, Julia Parsons Clarke and Brent Snyder, Perkins Coie LLP, Seattle, WA, for the defendant-appellee.