Modification of Final Judgment

In United States <a href="/facts/Telecommunication/vxoj1cxR">telecommunication</a> law, the Modification of Final Judgment (MFJ) is the August 24, 1982 <a href="/facts/Consent_decree/WduDaG8x">consent decree</a> concerning the <a href="/facts/Antitrust/cq7hKYN4">antitrust</a> lawsuit of January 14, 1949, United States vs. Western Electric Company and American Telephone and Telegraph Company and its Final Judgment on January 24, 1956, the latter of which it vacated. The decree was made with <a href="/facts/Harold_H._Greene/qhmn3gHJ">Harold H. Greene</a> as presiding judge in the <a href="/facts/United_States_District_Court_for_the_District_of_Columbia/Yd6yFUMt">United States District Court for the District of Columbia</a>.
The terms required the <a href="/facts/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System/W2WFN3nb">breakup of the Bell System</a> and a reorganization of the <a href="/facts/American_Telephone_and_Telegraph_Company/BfsX7eX2">American Telephone and Telegraph Company</a> (AT&T), including removing local telephone service from AT&T control and placing business restrictions on the divested regional telephone companies in exchange for removing other longstanding restrictions on the types of business AT&T could enter.: 125 : 143 (also footnote 4) 
The MFJ also consolidated the case <a href="/facts/United_States_v._AT%2526T_(1982)/pgDfbIgg">United States v. AT&T</a> filed on November 20, 1974.

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