![]() Sensing it was going to lose, AT&T proposed its own breakup arrangement that resulted in the company being split into various units in 1982. ![]() ![]() In 1974, the Justice Department sought an order requiring the phone giant to divest its equipment subsidiary, Western Electric. The other prominent breakup case involved AT&T. An appeals court reversed that order, however, and accepted a series of less drastic remedies. The most famous recent example is when a federal judge ordered Microsoft in 2000 to be broken up into two firms-one controlling Windows, and another that would own all of Microsoft’s other businesses. Meanwhile, there are only a handful of precedents involving courts ordering the breakup of companies. “They’ve presented a strong case and could win this,” says Slaiman of the government lawsuits, but adds that the question of remedies is far down the road. Slaiman says the issue is whether Facebook has behaved anticompetitively, and if it has then the FTC can propose whatever remedies it views as necessary to fix the problem.
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