NATIONAL UNION ELEC. CORP. v. MATSUSHITA ELEC.

Civ. A. No. 74-3274. M.D.L. No. 189.

498 F.Supp. 991 (1980)

NATIONAL UNION ELECTRIC CORPORATION v. MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD. et al. In re JAPANESE ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS ANTITRUST LITIGATION.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

June 3, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Blank, Rome, Comisky & McCauley by Edwin P. Rome (argued), William H. Roberts, John Hardin Young, Arnold I. Kalman, Kathleen H. Larkin, Norman E. Greenspan, Lawrence S. Bauman, Philadelphia, Pa., for National Union Elec. Corp., plaintiff.

Whitman & Ransom by Patrick H. Sullivan (argued), Dugald C. Brown, James S. Morris, Kevin R. Keating, Michael S. Press, New York City, Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz by Charles J. Bloom, Philadelphia, Pa., for Sanyo Elec., Inc., Sanyo Elec. Co., Ltd., and Sanyo Elec. Trading Co., Ltd., defendants.

Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander, New York City, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, Philadelphia, Pa., for the Toshiba defendants.

Metzger, Shadyac & Schwarz; Tanaka, Walders & Ritger, Washington, D. C., Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Philadelphia, Pa., for the Hitachi defendants.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia, Pa., for the Matsushita defendants.

Reid & Priest, New York City, Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, Philadelphia, Pa., for Mitsubishi Corp. and Mitsubishi Intern. Corp., defendants.

Rosenman, Colin, Freund, Lewis & Cohen, New York City, Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa., for the Sony defendants.

Wender, Murase & White, New York City, Dechert, Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia, Pa., for the Sharp defendants.


EDWARD R. BECKER, District Judge.

I. Preliminary Statement

This opinion addresses yet another motion for summary judgment interposed by defendants in this massive antitrust case. The present motion raises the question whether plaintiff, National Union Electric Corporation (NUE) has standing to maintain the action. While, because of the prominence of co-plaintiff Zenith Radio Corporation in the American...

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