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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.
In 1982, Greene presided over United States v. AT&T, the antitrust suit that broke up the AT&T vertical market monopoly on the telecommunications industry in the United States. [5] The case, one of Greene's first after being named to the bench, resulted in the 1982 consent decree between AT&T and the Federal Trade Commission.
United States v. AT&T may refer to several court cases: United States v. AT&T, a lawsuit enforcing the divestiture of the Bell System; United States v. AT&T, a lawsuit attempting to block a merger with Time Warner
AT&T is among several companies pursuing alternative worker mental health support strategies as traditional benefits get scrutinized. AT&T made big benefits changes to keep up with the well-being ...
AT&T first announced plans to acquire Time Warner in October 2016. The acquisition would give AT&T significant holdings in the media content industry for the first time, and would allow the company to compete more fully with its primary telecommunications rival, Comcast, which had recently acquired NBCUniversal under a similar strategy.
AT&T was founded as Bell Telephone Company by Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Watson and Gardiner Greene Hubbard after Bell's patenting of the telephone in 1875. [21] By 1881, Bell Telephone Company had become the American Bell Telephone Company. [22]
AT&T Corporation v. Hulteen , 556 U.S. 701 (2009), is a US labor law case of the United States Supreme Court , holding that maternity leave taken before the passage of the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act needed not to be considered in calculating employee pension benefits.
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