Text Message Antitrust Case V. AT&T, Others Revived

Law360, New York (May 03, 2010, 7:31 PM ET) -- A federal judge has resurrected a putative class action that accuses Verizon Wireless LLC, AT&T Mobility LLC, Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile USA Inc. of conspiring to gouge consumers on the price of individual text messages, saying a new complaint's claims are specific enough to let the case move forward.

The plaintiffs' latest complaint alleges enough “to take their conspiracy claim out of the realm of the conclusory or merely possible and carry it into the realm of the plausible,” Judge Matthew F. Kennelly of the...
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