United States DC Circuit

Plaintiff's claim, alleging defendant unlawfully refused to deal with would-be customers who had orders for DSL service pending with plaintiff, properly states a claim for monopolization under section 2 of the Sherman Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/01/2005
• Published 03/01/2005

Judges

• Before:  GINSBURG, Chief Judge, and ROGERS and TATEL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Merril Jay Hirsh, John Richard Gerstein, Peter G. Thompson, Gabriela Richeimer, Ross, Dixon & Bell, Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Jenner & Block, Bruce Douglas Sokler, Fernando Raul Laguarda, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo, Antony Richard Petrilla, Covad Communications Company, Washington, DC, James A. Kirkland, Covad Communications Company, San Jose, CA, for Appellants., Albert H. Kramer, Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky, David L. Lawson, C. Frederick Beckner, III, Ryan Douglas Nelson, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Jason Douglas Oxman, CompTel/ALTS, Washington, DC, David W. Carpenter, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Chicago, IL, Mark C. Rosenblum, American Telephone & Telegraph, Bedminster, NJ, Glenn B. Manishin, Kelley, Drye & Warren, Vienna, VA, Michelle Marie Aronowitz, Attorney, Richard Leonard Schwartz, Jay L. Himes, Attorney General's Office of State of New York, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae for Appellant., John A. Rogovin, John Edward Ingle, Deputy Associate General Counsel, Susan L. Launer, Deputy Associate General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• John Thorne, Arlington, VA, Richard Gray Taranto, Farr & Taranto, Michael K. Kellogg, Steven F. Benz, Mark C. Hansen, Aaron M. Panner, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, PLLC, Washington, DC, Dan K. Webb, Winston & Strawn, Chicago, IL, Justin S. Antonipillai, Arnold & Porter LLP, Washington, DC, for Appellees., Andrew D. Roth, Laurence Stephen Gold, Bredhoff & Kaiser, James Franklin Rill, Howrey Simon Arnold & White, Lawrence E. Sarjeant, United States Telephone Association, Washington, DC, Stephen M. Shapiro, Jeffrey W. Sarles, John E. Muench, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, Chicago, IL, Marc Gary, BellSouth Corporation, Atlanta, GA, for Amicus Curiae for Appellee.