UNITED STATES STEEL CORP. v. UNITED STATES

Court No. 82-10-01361.

569 F.Supp. 870 (1983)

UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION, Republic Steel Corporation, et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES, et al., Defendants, and Highveld Limited, Companhia Siderurgica Paulista (COSIPA), and Usinas Siderurgicas De Minas Gerais (USIMINAS), Defendants-Intervenors.

United States Court of International Trade.

July 22, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Department of United States Steel Corporation (D.B. King, J.J. Mangan, C.D. Mallick, L. Ranney and P.J. Koenig, Pittsburgh, Pa., of counsel), for plaintiff U.S. Steel Corp.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City (Joseph R. Sahid and Steven Schulman, New York City, of counsel) for plaintiffs, Republic Steel Corp., Inland Steel Co., Jones & Laughlin Steel Inc., National Steel Corp., and Cyclops Corp.

J. Paul McGrath, Asst. Atty. Gen., David M. Cohen, Branch Director, A. David Lafer and Francis J. Sailer, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants.

Wald, Harkrader & Ross, Washington, D.C. (William H. Barringer, Christopher A. Dunn and Arthur J. Lafave III, Washington, D.C., of counsel) for defendants-intervenors COSIPA and USIMINAS.


WATSON, Judge:

In this opinion, the Court answers the difficult question of whether to allow inhouse or corporate counsel to have access to confidential information regarding the business of their employer's competitors. The question was raised in United States Steel Corp., et al., v. United States, Consolidated Court No. 82-3-00288; but the settlement of the steel dispute with the European Community made the issue...

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