DePaul Law Review Volume 32 Issue 3 Spring 1983 Article 4 The "New" Law of Monopolization: An Examination of MCI Communications Corp. v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Spencer Weber Waller Follow this and additional works at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/law-review Recommended Citation Spencer W. Waller, The "New" Law of Monopolization: An Examination of MCI Communications Corp. v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co., 32 DePaul L. Rev. 595 (1983) Available at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/law-review/vol32/iss3/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Law at Via Sapientiae. It has been accepted for inclusion in DePaul Law Review by an authorized editor of Via Sapientiae. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. THE "NEW" LAW OF MONOPOLIZATION: AN EXAMINATION OF MCI COMMUNICATIONS CORP. V. AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO. Spencer Weber Waller* On January 12, 1983, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit released its long-awaited opinion in MCI Communications Corp. v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.' The 128-page opinion concerns the 1974 monopolization suit brought by MCI against the alleged predatory and exclusionary practices of AT&T during the early seventies, a period when MCI first began to compete aggressively with AT&T in the private line long- distance telecommunications market. In a two-to-one decision, a panel of the Seventh Circuit reversed a $1.8 billion judgment award against AT&T while rejecting allegations that AT&T had engaged in predatory pricing.2 The court, however, affirmed most of the findings of liability against AT&T and remanded the case for a new trial on the issue of damages.