HMC MANAGEMENT CORPORATION, the Louisiana Stadium and Exposition District and the State of Louisiana
v.
The NEW ORLEANS BASKETBALL CLUB (the Jazz) et al.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
August 29, 1979.
Rehearing Denied October 18, 1979.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Robert E. Redmann, Asst. Atty. Gen., George B. Recile, Staff Atty., La. Dept. of Justice, New Orleans, for La. Stadium and Exposition Dist. and State of La., plaintiffs-appellants.
Donald A. Hoffman, City Atty., New Orleans, for City of New Orleans and Ernest N. Morial, Mayor, intervenors-appellees.
Adams & Reese, Michael G. Crow, New Orleans, for Sheldon D. Beychok and Mary Olive Pierson, defendants-appellees.
Theodore W. Nass, New Orleans, for Paul Griffin, Aaron James, Rick Kelly, Pete Maravich, Gail Goodrich, Tommy Green, James Hardy & James McElroy, defendants-appellees.
Tucker & Schonekas, Gibson Tucker, Jr., New Orleans, for HMC Management Corp., plaintiff-appellant.
Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, David L. Stone, Wayne J. Lee, New Orleans, for Nat. Basketball Ass'n and certain of its member clubs, defendants-appellees; Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn, New York City, of counsel.
Michael A. Cardozo, Jeffrey A. Mishkin, Mathew E. Hoffman, New York City, Shushan, Meyer, Jackson, McPherson & Herzog, Donald A. Meyer, Dorothy T. Blackwood and Kenneth W. Kirchem, New Orleans, for New Orleans Basketball Club (The Jazz) and properly served general partners other than Sheldon D. Beychok, defendants-appellees.
Before BOUTALL, SCHOTT and BEER, JJ.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.
BOUTALL, Judge.
This is a suit involving the validity of a lease agreement for playing professional basketball games in the Superdome, violations of the lease, and available remedies. A concurrent claim is violation of the antitrust laws of Louisiana, R.S. 51, Part IV. This appeal seeks review of the trial court's judgment maintaining a number of exceptions filed by defendants and refusing to issue a preliminary injunction.
The plaintiffs are:
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