• telecommunication law, the Modification of Final Judgment (MFJ) is the August 24, 1982 consent decree concerning the antitrust lawsuit of January 14, 1949, United...
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    Regional Bell Operating Company (category History of telecommunications in the United States)
    AT&T (United States v. AT&T). The suits were settled in the Modification of Final Judgment in August 1982. AT&T agreed to divest its local exchange service...
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  • MFJ can mean: Modification of Final Judgment, a legal agreement stemming from the 1982 AT&T breakup MFJ Enterprises, ham radio manufacturer based in Mississippi...
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  • in 1982 (see Modification of Final Judgment) and in the United Kingdom starting with the early 1980s (mainly due to the privatization of British Telecom...
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    Bell was not listed in Judge Harold H. Greene's Modification of Final Judgment, starting the breakup of the Bell System. Nevada Bell traces its history...
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    AT&T (redirect from Criticism of AT&T)
    common nickname of "Ma Bell". The company was formally rebranded as AT&T Corporation in 1994. The 1982 Modification of Final Judgment concluded the 1949...
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    area of the United States under the terms of the Modification of Final Judgment (MFJ) entered by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia...
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    decree between the company and the Department of Justice, was called the Modification of Final Judgment and was signed off by AT&T Chief Executive Officer...
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  • Robinson–Patman Act (category Acts of the 74th United States Congress)
    The Robinson–Patman Act (RPA) of 1936 (or Anti-Price Discrimination Act, Pub. L. No. 74-692, 49 Stat. 1526 (codified at 15 U.S.C. § 13)) is a United States...
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    United States v. Live Nation Entertainment (category United States District Court for the Southern District of New York cases)
    Entertainment, LLC is an antitrust lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and twenty-nine states and Washington, D.C., against entertainment...
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    Prime Video and Amazon Web Services. As of 2022[update], it had a turnover of over $500 billion, making it one of the largest companies in the world. The...
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    as Central Services Organization as part of the 1982 Modification of Final Judgment that broke up the Bell System. It later received the name Bell Communications...
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    FTC v. Meta (category United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit cases)
    Mark Zuckerberg testifying during the first day of the proceedings. The case centers on Meta acquisition of Facebook's two former competitors—Instagram and...
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    United States v. Apple (2024) (category United States District Court for the District of New Jersey cases)
    States Department of Justice (DOJ) alleges that Apple violated antitrust statutes. The lawsuit contrasts the practices of Apple with those of Microsoft in...
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  • National Broadcasting Co. v. United States (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Stone Court)
    grant of power can include the regulation of areas not explicitly contemplated by the organic statute, as long as they are within the scope of the purpose...
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  • Preservation Act of 1970 was an Act of the United States Congress, signed by President Richard Nixon, authorizing the formation of joint operating agreements...
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    brought by Epic Games against Google in August 2020 in the Northern District of California. Filed concurrently with Epic Games v. Apple, Epic had challenged...
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    throughout most of the country, its subsidiary Western Electric produced much of its equipment. Relinquishing ownership of Western Electric was one of the Justice...
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  • been a PacBell subsidiary, that company was omitted from the Modification of Final Judgment that broke up the Bell System. In 1997, Pacific Telesis Group...
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    United States v. Google LLC (2023) (category United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia cases)
    of sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. The suit is separate from the first antitrust case launched in 2020 that accuses Google of an...
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    Robertson v. National Basketball Ass'n (category United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit cases)
    1976. Although he wasn't playing anymore, Robertson was not out of sight. As president of the NBA players union, Robertson's 1970 suit against the NBA contended...
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    FTC v. Microsoft (category United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit cases)
    Collectively, Nadella, Kotick, and Spencer argued that exclusives such as Final Fantasy XVI (2023) force Xbox into making exclusives. During the injunction...
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    2022-10-12. "Final Judgment: U.S. v. Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, et al". US Department of Justice. 1909-09-20. Retrieved 2022-12-23. History of Exxon...
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  • The Wheeler–Lea Act of 1938 is a United States federal law that amended Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act to proscribe "unfair or deceptive...
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  • filed the suit, the DOJ and the defendants proposed a settlement. A final judgment enforcing the settlement was entered by the court on March 17, 2011...
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    anti-monopolist work of Louis Brandeis, an early 20th century United States Supreme Court Justice who called high economic concentration “the Curse of Bigness” and...
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  • Cir. 2006) is available from: CourtListener Findlaw Google Scholar Leagle Plaintiff Daniel Wallace's Memorandum on Motion for Summary Judgment (Groklaw)...
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    Wilk v. American Medical Association (category United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit cases)
    was not in the best interests of patients. She concluded that the AMA had been too restrictive in its campaign: The final question is whether this concern...
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  • created on January 1, 1983, as a unit of American Bell, Inc., upon declaration by the Modification of Final Judgment that American Telephone & Telegraph...
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  • Rule of Reason Approach for High-Tech Markets", Suffolk University Law Review, Vol. 50, No. 1, 2017 Judgment of the General Court (First Chamber) of 9 September...
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