United States Ninth Circuit

In a suit alleging that an incumbent local exchange carrier monopolized and attempted to monopolize the regional digital subscriber line market in violation of the Sherman Act, denial of defendants' motion for judgment on the pleadings is affirmed where plaintiff's allegation that defendants' pricing scheme created an anticompetitive price squeeze stated a potentially valid claim under section 2 of the Sherman Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/05/2007
• Decided 09/11/2007
• Published 09/11/2007

Judges

• Before: SIDNEY R. THOMAS, KIM McLANE WARDLAW, and RONALD M. GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert A. Mittelstaedt and Craig E. Stewart, Jones Day, San Francisco, CA, for appellants SBC California, Inc., Pacific Bell Internet Services, and SBC Advanced Solutions, Inc., John Thorne and Paul J. Larkin, Jr., Verizon Communications Inc., Arlington, VA;  Aaron M. Panner, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC;  and Richard G. Taranto, Farr & Taranto, Washington, DC, for amicus curiae Verizon Communications, Inc.


• For Appellees:
  
• Maxwell M. Blecher and Gary M. Joye, Blecher & Collins, P.C., Los Angeles, CA, for appellees linkLine Communications, Inc., In-Reach Internet LLC, Om Networks, dba Omsoft Technologies, Nitelog, Inc., dba Red Shift Internet Services.