Court Puts Restrictions on Phone Suits

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Court Puts Restrictions on Phone Suits
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: January 13, 2004


Filed at 11:10 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court voted unanimously to restrict when consumers can sue over bad telephone service, a victory for regional phone companies.

In the ruling released Tuesday, the justices held that consumers cannot use federal antitrust laws in suits claiming that regional phone companies provide substandard service to rivals, which hurts customers of those rivals.

more...........

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Scotus-Phone-Lawsuits.html

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1. From the link

Scalia predicted many and complex disputes over the relationships, if lawsuits were allowed.

``An antitrust court is unlikely to be an effective day-to-day enforcer of these detailed sharing obligations,'' he wrote.

Seems to me, that it is pretty presumptuous for Scalia to assume what is the best thing for three hundred million people, but maybe it's just the problem that he does know (divine intervention again?)

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3. Antitrust courts are unlikely to be effective

So just make enforcement of the rules completely impossible. Great.

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2. Oh, those liberal courts, always making laws and life hard

for bidness!

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