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In United States telecommunication law, the Modification of Final Judgment (MFJ ) is the August 1982 consent decree concerning the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) and its subsidiaries, in the antitrust lawsuit United States v. AT&T breakup of the Bell System , including removing local telephone service from AT&T control and placing business restrictions on the divested local telephone companies in exchange for removing other longstanding restrictions on what businesses AT&T could own and manage.[ 1] : 125
The decree replaced the entirety of the previous final judgment of January 24, 1956 in the case United States v. Western Electric Inc. ,[ 2] [ 3] United States District Court for the District of Columbia and is referred to in the MFJ as the Western Electric case,[ 4] : 143 (also footnote 4) United States v. AT&T AT&T action[ 4] : 139 AT&T case.
The decree was made with Harold H. Greene as presiding judge.[ 4]
^ Noll, A. Michael (2010). Highway of Dreams: A Critical View Along the Information Superhighway ISBN 9781136685033 LCCN 96041620 . ^ Modification of Final Judgement (archived scan) in United States of America v. Western Electric Company, Incorporated, and American Telephone and Telegraph Company . United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Civil Action No. 82-0192, filed August 24, 1982. Retrieved 2019-01-29.^ Sullivan, Lawrence A.; Hertz, Ellen (September 1990). "The AT&T Antitrust Consent Decree: Should Congress Change the Rules" . Berkeley Technology Law Journal . 5 (2). University of California, Berkeley, School of Law : 236. doi :10.15779/Z38JH3G . ISSN 1086-3818 . ^ a b c "United States v. American Tel. and Tel. Co., 552 F. Supp. 131 (D.D.C. 1983)" . Justia . Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
public domain material from Federal Standard 1037C General Services Administration . Archived from the original on January 22, 2022.
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This article incorporates public domain material from Federal Standard 1037C. General Services Administration. Archived from the original on January 22, 2022.
