- Source: Modification of Final Judgment
In United States telecommunication law, the Modification of Final Judgment (MFJ) is the August 1982 consent decree concerning the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) and its subsidiaries, in the antitrust lawsuit United States v. AT&T of 1974. The terms required the Bell System divestiture, including removing local telephone service from AT&T control and placing business restrictions on the divested local telephone companies in exchange for removing other longstanding restrictions on what businesses AT&T could own and manage.: 125
The decree replaced the entirety of the previous final judgment of January 24, 1956 in the case United States v. Western Electric Inc., which had been transferred to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and is referred to in the MFJ as the Western Electric case,: 143 (also footnote 4) and consolidated with the existing United States v. AT&T filed on November 20, 1974, which is referred to in the MFJ as the AT&T action: 139 or AT&T case.
The decree was made with Harold H. Greene as presiding judge.
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This article incorporates public domain material from Federal Standard 1037C. General Services Administration. Archived from the original on January 22, 2022.