Press Statement

The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division Filed its Opening Brief Today in United States v. AT&T Inc. et al., in The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

August 6, 2018

“The district court’s opinion rested on two fundamental errors: (1) the court discarded the economics of bargaining that defendants themselves had endorsed in prior regulatory proceedings, and (2) it disregarded the foundational principle that a corporation with multiple divisions operates them to maximize the corporation’s overall profits,” said Makan Delrahim, Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division.  “The lower court’s errors colored its view of the facts, leading to a decision that is simply wrong in light of the evidence the government presented at trial.”