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Law firm sues telecom company for not including it in directory
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Posted on Feb 17 2006
A law firm filed yesterday a lawsuit against Pacific Telecom Inc. for not including its company in the 2006 telephone directory.
The Law Offices of Gorman and Gavras sued PTI and Micronesian Telecommunications Corp. for alleged breach of contract and negligence.
The plaintiff, through counsel A. Alexander Gorman, asked the Superior Court to order the defendants to pay the company general and special damages, court costs, and attorney’s fees.
The Saipan Tribune tried to contact PTI’s general manager Tony Mosley but he was not available for comment.
Gorman stated in the complaint that PTI own and control the local telephone utility service, including all telephone landlines in the CNMI. Gorman said the defendants have a monopoly on all the telephone landlines in the Commonwealth.
Furthermore, the lawyer said, defendants published the only 2006 CNMI official telephone directory.
He said that the law firm has been a customer of the telephone company since 2002 and has been continuously paying for business telephone lines.
Plaintiff has had a business listing in the “attorneys’ section of the yellow pages within the CNMI official telephone directory since 2003, he added.
PTI and MTC, Gorman said, failed to include the plaintiff’s regular business listing in the “attorneys” section of the yellow pages contained in the 2006 Telephone Directory.
He said the plaintiff had an implied contract with the defendants that the law offices would receive a yellow pages listing under the “attorneys” section contained in the 2006 CNMI official Telephone Directory in exchange for purchasing and paying for several business telephone lines.
“When the defendants wrongfully failed to include plaintiff’s business listing in the ‘attorneys’ section of the 2006, the defendants breached the implied contract,” he asserted.
“As a proximate result of the defendants’ wrongful conduct, plaintiff suffered and continues to suffer from loss of past, present and future business, the lost opportunity to obtain new customers and other pecuniary losses,” Gorman added.
