AUSTRALIA/EASTERN U.S.A., ETC. v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 80-1830.

537 F.Supp. 807 (1982)

AUSTRALIA/EASTERN U.S.A. SHIPPING CONFERENCE, et al., Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES of America, et al., Respondents.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

April 19, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley O. Sher, Marc J. Fink, Frank E. Massengale, Jr., Billig, Sher & Jones, Washington, D. C., for petitioners.

Roger W. Fones, Catherine B. Klion, Elliott M. Seiden, James R. Weiss, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for respondents.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

JOYCE HENS GREEN, District Judge.

The government seeks reconsideration of the Memorandum Opinion of December 23, 1981 insofar as it quashed certain paragraphs of the Civil Investigative Demands (CIDs) on Noerr-Pennington grounds. Noerr and its progeny essentially hold that an antitrust violation cannot be predicated upon efforts to influence government to pass or enforce laws, to influence administrative agencies to take...

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