Cases
Noteworthy Representations: After a two-day hearing with live testimony, Mr. Thorne won a decision overturning ICANN's refusal to award to Amazon the top-level domain name .amazon
its equivalents in Chinese
Japanese characters. Amazon EU S.a.r.l. v. ICANN, Final Declaration (July 11, 2017).
With a team of his partners
associates, Mr. Thorne won a first-ever CRB rate reduction in Webcasting IV. Broadcasters won a 32 percent reduction in the rates they paid. The client, iHeartRadio, the second-largest webcaster in the country, got a big win. Billboard, Inside the CRB's New Streaming Rates (Dec. 17, 2015) (original emphasis).
Mr. Thorne won three Supreme Court antitrust cases. Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007)
Verizon v. Trinko, LLP, 540 U.S. 398 (2004)
NYNEX v. Discon, 525 U.S. 128 (1998). He won two dozen consumer antitrust class actions
half a dozen competitor antitrust cases. E.g., Siti-Sites.com v. Verizon, No. 11-65 (2d Cir. July 5, 2011)
The New Phone Co. v. Verizon, No. 06-5276-CV (2d Cir. Dec. 7, 2009)
Covad v. Bell Atlantic Corp., 398 F.3d 666 (D.C. Cir. 2005)
Cavalier Tel., LLC v. Verizon, 330 F.3d 176 (4th Cir. 2003)
In re Wireless Tel. Servs. Antitrust Litig., 385 F. Supp.2d 403 (S.D.N.Y. 2005)
Greco v. Verizon, 2005 WL 659200 (S.D.N.Y. 2005)
Robinson v. Verizon, No. 01-98-KSF (E.D. Ky. 2003)
Verizon v. Ntegrity Telecontent Servs., Inc., 219 F. Supp.2d 616 (D.N.J. 2002)
Yellow Page Solutions v. Bell Atlantic Yellow Pages Co., 2001 WL 1468168 (S.D.N.Y. 2001). With then-Kellogg partner Neil Gorsuch, he won a fraud case against one of the antitrust plaintiffs. Verizon v. Covad Communications Co., 377 F.3d 1081 (9th Cir. 2004).
He obtained clearance for the mergers of Bell Atlantic, NYNEX, AirTouch, GTE, MCI, Alltel,
Terremark that created Verizon
Verizon Wireless.
He won a patent jury verdict
an injunction in Verizon v. Vonage Holdings Corp., 503 F.3d 1295 (Fed. Cir. 2007). The jury verdict was one of the largest in the nation that year.
He won elimination of restrictions against Bell companies providing information services. United States v. Western Elec. Co., 900 F.2d 283 (D.C. Cir. 1990).
He won a First Amendment case striking down a federal statute banning telephone company video programming. Chesapeake & Potomac Tel. Co. v. United States, 830 F. Supp. 909 (E.D. Va. 1993), aff'd, 42 F.3d 181 (4th Cir. 1994), dismissed as moot, 516 U.S. 415 (1996).
He brought offensive plaintiff antitrust cases in 1994
1997 against AT&T
Lucent. He brought an antitrust case in 1999 against AirTouch, eliminating a noncompete that had threatened to bar closing of Bell Atlantic-GTE merger. He brought an antitrust case in 2001 against Sumitomo for copper price fixing. He brought an antitrust
First Amendment case in 2006 against Montgomery County, Maryl
for restricting Verizon's entry into the video business.
