H. A. ARTISTS & ASSOC., INC. v. ACTORS EQUITY ASS'N

No. 875, Docket 79-7821.

622 F.2d 647 (1980)

H. A. ARTISTS & ASSOCIATES, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ACTORS EQUITY ASSOCIATION, an unincorporated association, and Donald Grody, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 23, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard Breindel, New York City (Bowditch & Dewey, Worcester, Mass., Solin & Breindel, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Nan Bases, New York City (Cohn, Glickstein, Lurie, Ostrin, Lubell & Lubell, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Shea & Gould, New York City, for amicus curiae, Screen Actors Guild, Inc.

Mortimer Becker, New York City (Van Arkel, Kaiser, Gressman, Rosenberg & Driesen, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for amicus curiae, Am. Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

Before LUMBARD, MANSFIELD, Circuit Judges and BARTELS, District Judge.


LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

Appellants, theatrical agents who act as intermediaries between actors and producers, appeal from a judgment of the District Court for the Southern District of New York, 478 F.Supp. 496 (1979) (Motley, J.), holding certain practices of defendant union Actors Equity ("Equity") immune from challenge under the antitrust laws because protected by the "statutory labor exemption." We affirm.

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