APEX OIL CO. v. DiMAURO

No. 737, Docket 86-7898.

822 F.2d 246 (1987)

APEX OIL COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Joseph DiMAURO, Triad Petroleum, Inc., Tic Commodities, Inc., Coastal Corporation, Coastal States Marketing, Inc., Belcher Oil Company, The Belcher Company of New York, Inc., Belcher New England, Inc., Belcher New Jersey, Inc., Stinnes Corporation, Stinnes Interoil, Inc., Eastern of New Jersey, Inc., Northeast Petroleum Industries, Inc., Northeast Petroleum Corporation, George E. Warren Corporation, New York Mercantile Exchange and Julian Raber, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 17, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard J. Wiener, New York City (Pamela Rogers Chepiga, Jeffrey Q. Smith, Robert D. Rippe, Jr., Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Martin I. Kaminsky, New York City (Edward T. McDermott, Pollack & Kaminsky, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees Joseph DiMauro, Triad Petroleum, Inc., and TIC Commodities, Inc.

Michael Lesch, New York City (Adam B. Gilbert, Yee Wah Chin, Shea & Gould, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees The Coastal Corp., Coastal States Marketing, Inc., Belcher Oil Co., The Belcher Co. of New York, Inc., Belcher New England, Inc., and Belcher New Jersey, Inc.

Larry Wainer, Houston, Tex., of counsel, for defendants-appellees The Coastal Corp. and Coastal States Marketing, Inc.

Donald E. Egan, Lee Ann Watson, James E. Hanlon, Jr., Katten, Muchin, Zavis, Pearl, Greenberger & Galler, Chicago, Ill., Christopher H. Lunding, Mitchell A. Lowenthal, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York City, of counsel, for defendants-appellees Stinnes Corp. and Stinnes Interoil, Inc.

Kenneth J. McGuire, Stein, Bliablias, McGuire & Pantages, Livingston, N.J., of counsel, for defendant-appellee Eastern Oil of New Jersey.

Neil T. Motenko, T. Christopher Donnelly, Lisa C. Wood, Nutter, McClennon & Fish, Boston, Massachusetts, Jon Paul Robbins, Nitken, Alkalay, Handler & Robbins, New York City, of counsel, for defendants-appellees Northeast Petroleum Corp. and Northeast Petroleum Industries, Inc.

David R. Schaefer, James C. Graham, Brenner, Saltzman, Wallman & Goldman, New Haven, Connecticut, Darrell K. Fennell, Owen & Fennell, New York City, of counsel, for defendant-appellee George E. Warren Corp.

William E. Hegarty, New York City (Peter Leight, Kathy Silberthau, Phillip C. Essig, Cahill Gordon & Reindel, New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellee New York Mercantile Exchange.

Julius Berman, Phillip A. Geraci, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, New York City, of counsel, for defendant-appellee Julian Raber.

Before PIERCE and ALTIMARI, Circuit Judges, and SPRIZZO, District Judge.


PIERCE, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal we are called upon to review a grant of summary judgment in a complex antitrust conspiracy case. This litigation arises out of the circumstances surrounding the settling of February 1982 futures contracts for No. 2 home heating oil. Simply stated, plaintiff-appellant Apex Oil Company ("Apex") alleges that defendants-appellees, which include competing oil companies, a broker, the New York Mercantile Exchange (the "Exchange"), and...

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