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LYELL THEATRE CORP. v. LOEWS CORP.

No. 728, Docket 81-7740.

682 F.2d 37 (1982)

LYELL THEATRE CORPORATION and Martina Theatre Corporation, Plaintiffs, Lyell Theatre Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LOEWS CORPORATION, Loews Doe Corporation, Jo-Mor Enterprises, Inc., John R. Martina, Morris P. Slotnick, Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., United Artists Corporation, Transamerica Corporation, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Paramount Film Distributing Corporation, Gulf and Western Industries, Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., National General Pictures Corporation, National General Corporation, Cinerama Releasing Corporation and Cinerama, Inc., Defendants, Loews Corporation, Loews Doe Corporation, Jo-Mor Enterprises, Inc., John R. Martina, Morris P. Slotnick, Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., United Artists Corporation, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Paramount Film Distributing Corporation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., National General Pictures Corporation, Cinerama Releasing Corporation and Cinerama, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 28, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin J. O'Donnell, Boston, Mass. (Cesari & McKenna, Boston, Mass., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Beryl Nusbaum, Rochester, N. Y. (Woods, Oviatt, Gilman, Sturman & Clarke, Donald W. O'Brien, Jr., Rochester, N. Y., of counsel), for defendants-appellees Loews Corp. and Loews Doe Corp.

James C. Gocker, Rochester, N. Y. (Harris, Beach, Wilcox, Rubin & Levey, Richard L. Smith, Rochester, N. Y., of counsel), for defendants-appellees Jo-Mor Enterprises, Inc., John R. Martina and Morris P. Slotnick.

Frank Raichle, Buffalo, N. Y. (Raichle, Banning, Weiss & Halpern, Buffalo, N. Y., of counsel), for defendants-appellees Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., United Artists Corp., Paramount Pictures Corp., Paramount Film Distributing Corp. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.

Henry W. Killeen, III, Buffalo, N. Y. (Jaeckle, Fleischmann & Mugel, Buffalo, N. Y., of counsel), for defendants-appellees Nat. General Pictures Corp., Cinerama Releasing Corp. and Cinerama, Inc.

Before TIMBERS, NEWMAN and CARDAMONE, Circuit Judges.

CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

After ten years of broken promises, inactivity and delay, the district court dismissed plaintiffs' complaint for failure to prosecute. We affirm, and write to make known our view on the appropriateness of the extreme sanction of dismissal.

Plaintiffs Lyell Theatre Corporation and Martina Theatre Corporation (Lyell Theatres) were motion picture exhibitors. At the time this action was instituted these corporations conducted business...

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