COASTAL STATES MARKETING, INC. v. HUNT

No. 81-2303.

694 F.2d 1358 (1983)

COASTAL STATES MARKETING, INC. and Valero Energy Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants Cross-Appellees, v. Nelson Bunker HUNT, et al., Defendants-Appellees Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied February 16, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen D. Susman, William H. White, Robert E. Walls, Houston, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellants cross-appellees.

Vinson & Elkins, Harry M. Reasoner, Houston, Tex., Shank, Irwin, Conant, Williamson & Grevelle, A.B. Conant, Jr., Dallas, Tex., for N.B. Hunt, H. Hunt and L. Hunt.

Before RUBIN, RANDALL and JOLLY, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied February 16, 1983.

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

The issue is whether petitioning immunity1 shields from antitrust scrutiny the defendants' pursuit of companies dealing in nationalized Libyan oil. The district court concluded that substantially all of the defendants' conduct was undertaken to obtain relief from courts in this country and abroad. The court, therefore, directed a verdict in...

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