Verizon Communications Inc. v. Law Offices of Curtis V. Trinko, LLP, 540 U.S. 398, 3 (2004)

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VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. v. LAW OFFICES OF CURTIS V. TRINKO, LLP

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conduct the antitrust laws are designed to protect. Matsushita Elec. Industrial Co. v. Zenith Radio Corp., 475 U. S. 574, 594. Pp. 411-416. 305 F. 3d 89, reversed and remanded.

Scalia, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and O'Connor, Kennedy, Ginsburg, and Breyer, JJ., joined. Stevens, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which Souter and Thomas, JJ., joined, post, p. 416.

Richard G. Taranto argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were John Thorne, Michael K. Kellogg, Mark C. Hansen, Aaron M. Panner, and Henry B. Gutman.

Solicitor General Olson argued the cause for the United States et al. as amici curiae urging reversal. With him on the brief were Acting Assistant Attorney General Pate, Deputy Solicitor General Clement, Jeffrey A. Lamken, Catherine G. O'Sullivan, Nancy C. Garrison, and David Seidman.

Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Alice McInerney, Bruce V. Spiva, Ian Heath Gershengorn, Marc A. Goldman, Elaine J. Goldenberg, and Chester T. Kamin.*

*Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the Commonwealth of Virginia et al. by Jerry W. Kilgore, Attorney General of Virginia, William H. Hurd, State Solicitor, Maureen Riley Matsen and William E. Thro, Deputy State Solicitors, Judith Williams Jagdmann, Deputy Attorney General, C. Meade Browder, Jr., Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Sarah Oxenham Allen and Raymond L. Doggett, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, and by the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows: William H. Pryor, Jr., of Alabama, M. Jane Brady of Delaware, Steve Carter of Indiana, Jon Bruning of Nebraska, Peter W. Heed of New Hampshire, W. A. Drew Edmondson of Oklahoma, and Mark L. Shurtleff of Utah; for BellSouth Corp. et al. by Stephen M. Shapiro, John E. Muench, Jeffrey W. Sarles, Marc Gary, Marc W. F. Galonsky, and William M. Schur; for the Communications Workers of America by Patrick M. Scanlon, Andrew D. Roth, and Laurence Gold; for the Telecommunications Industry Association by Donald I. Baker; for United Parcel Service, Inc., et al. by Drew S. Days III, W. Stephen Smith, Beth S. Brinkmann, Paul T. Friedman, and Peter M. Kreindler; for the United

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