CRIMPERS PROMOTIONS, INC. v. HOME BOX OFFICE, INC.

No. 126, Docket 83-7364.

724 F.2d 290 (1983)

CRIMPERS PROMOTIONS INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. HOME BOX OFFICE, INC. and Showtime Entertainment Corporation, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 12, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert D. Joffe, New York City (Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City), for defendant-appellant Home Box Office, Inc.

John A. Donovan, New York City (Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, New York City), for defendant-appellant Showtime Entertainment Corporation.

Jerry I. Lefkowitz, Forest Hills, N.Y., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before FEINBERG, Chief Judge, and FRIENDLY and PRATT, Circuit Judges.


FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:

The question on this appeal is whether a company organized to hold a trade show to facilitate contacts between producers of cable television programming and local cable television stations has standing to prosecute an action under § 4 of the Clayton Act against two companies which are alleged to dominate the business of purchasing and assembling programming from producers and selling it to the stations. Plaintiff claims that the defendants...

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