DoJ denied competitive carriers’ allegations that it didn’t respo...
DoJ denied competitive carriers’ allegations that it didn’t respond properly to information requests by the judge handling the Tunney Act review of the SBC-AT&T and Verizon- MCI mergers. At a Nov. 30 hearing “counsel for the amici alleged that…
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the United States ‘made up’ the legal, factual, and economic support for its analysis,” DoJ told Judge Emmet Sullivan in a Dec. 13 filing. “These allegations… are based on mischaracterizations of relevant legal standards, misstatements of the United States’ positions, and misrepresentations of the factual record.” Sullivan had given DoJ permission to respond in writing to charges raised at the hearing by groups representing competitors. “The United States has been candid and consistent” in describing its views to the judge and has followed the law, DoJ said.