United States v. AT&T (1982)
1982 case in U.S. antitrust law / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the 2011 lawsuit of the same name, see Attempted purchase of T-Mobile USA by AT&T.
For the 2018-19 lawsuit of the same name, see United States v. AT&T (2019).
United States v. AT&T, 552 F.Supp. 131 (1982), was a ruling of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia,[1] that led to the 1984 Bell System divestiture, and the breakup of the old AT&T natural monopoly into seven regional Bell operating companies and a much smaller new version of AT&T.
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U.S. v. AT&T (1982) | |
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Court | United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
Full case name | United States of America v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co., et al. |
Decided | August 24, 1982 |
Citation | 552 F.Supp. 131 |
Holding | |
The Sherman Antitrust Act enabled the United States government to break up the AT&T telephone monopoly into seven smaller companies. | |
Court membership | |
Judge sitting | Harold H. Greene |
Laws applied | |
Sherman Antitrust Act |
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