ENCODER COMMUNICATIONS, INC. v. TELEGEN, INC.

Nos. 1012 to 1014, Dockets 80-7392, 80-7670 and 80-7672.

654 F.2d 198 (1981)

ENCODER COMMUNICATIONS, INC., and Anthony S. Lazzarino, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees, v. TELEGEN, INC., Graduate Education Network, Inc., Theodore Salata, Richard J. Reynolds, Joseph Roizen, Thomson-CSF, Inc., Michael M. Boxberger, Compagnie Francaise de Television, Thomson-CSF Paris, and Optimedia Systems, Inc., Defendants-Appellees, Thomson-CSF, Inc., Michael M. Boxberger, and Thomson-CSF Paris, Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 15, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeremiah B. McKenna, Straniere, Fagin, McKenna, Runes & Nachison, Staten Island, N.Y., for plaintiffs-appellants-cross-appellees Encoder Communications, Inc., and Anthony S. Lazzarino.

James A. Shanman, Sharfman, Shanman, Poret & Swiglia, P.C., New York City, for defendants-appellees Theodore Salata, Joseph Roizen, and Compagnie Francaise de Television.

Gordon T. King, Coudert Brothers, New York City, for defendants-appellees-cross-appellants Thomson-CSF, Inc., Michael M. Boxberger, and Thomson-CSF Paris.

Before FEINBERG, Chief Judge, OAKES, Circuit Judge, and BONSAL, District Judge.


OAKES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal involves a complex of procedural questions arising out of pretrial maneuvers in a case commenced in August 1972 in the Supreme Court of New York and removed by the defendants to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The district court, Charles S. Haight, Judge, on September 27, 1979, denied appellants' motion to amend their complaint to add a claim under...

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