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Suit by HRDC Alleging GTL and Securus Violated Sherman Anti-Trust Act Survives Motion to Dismiss
Loaded on Feb. 1, 2022
by Douglas Ankney
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2022, page 21
Filed under:
Telephone Rates,
Antitrust Offenses,
HRDC Litigation,
Securus,
Global Tel*Link Corp.
Location:
Maryland.
by Douglas Ankney
A suit brought by the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) alleging a price-fixing and kickback scheme by prison telephone service providers Global Tel*Link Corp. (now known as ViaPath), Securus Technologies, LLC, and 3Cinteractive Corp. (3Ci), survived a motion to dismiss by Defendants on September 30, …
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