PETNEL v. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY

Nos. 119, 120, Dockets 33627, 34944.

434 F.2d 645 (1970)

Joseph A. PETNEL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY and Western Electric Company, Inc., Defendants-Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 11, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. Petnel, pro se.

S. Hazard Gillespie, New York City (Davis, Polk & Wardwell, New York City, Alan J. Mayer, of counsel), for defendants-respondents.

Before SMITH, KAUFMAN and FEINBERG, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

This is a consolidated appeal from two orders of Chief Judge Sugarman of December 8, 1969 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissing the action for want of prosecution. The underlying cause of action is apparently a private antitrust suit seeking, among other things, some $45 million in damages and the divestiture by American Telephone and Telegraph of all its stock in Western Electric and the operating companies...

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