Comcast and AT&T Successfully Defended by Mintz Levin in Consumer Class Action Appeal
12/20/2004
The California Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Comcast and AT&T, affirming the trial court's judgment of dismissal of a consumer class action suit. A three-judge panel of the state court of appeals unanimously affirmed the judgment of dismissal, which was obtained last year when Mintz Levin attorneys prevailed on a motion to dismiss in California Superior Court. The court held that the "filed rate doctrine" barred the plaintiff's claims for damages.
Sara Leibman, Howard Symons, Catherine Carroll, Angela Collins and Susan Duarte, communications attorneys in the firm's Washington office, represented Comcast and AT&T in both the trial court and on appeal, along with Harvey Saferstein and Nada Shamonki, litigators in the firm's California office, and Patrick Clendenen, a litigator in the firm's Boston office.
