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NISHIMURA v. DOLAN

Civ. A. No. 83-0085.

599 F.Supp. 484 (1984)

James Y. NISHIMURA, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Charles F. DOLAN, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

October 19, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay E. Ricks, P.C., David J. Saylor, Harry T. Jones, Jr., Hogan & Hartson, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs James Y. Nishimura, Communication Systems Corp., Huntington TV Cable Corp., Home Entertainment Productions, Inc.

Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, for Cablevision and individual defendants; Michael A. Cooper, Yvonne S. Quinn, James W. Dabney, Steven H. Reisberg, New York City, Joseph F. Carlino, P.C., Mineola, N.Y., of counsel.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, a partnership including P.C., New York City, for defendant Meadowlands Basketball Associates; Moses Silverman, Michael A. Lampert, New York City, of counsel.

Arthur H. Christy, David S. Machlowitz, Christy & Viener, New York City, for defendant Nassau Sports.

BARTELS, District Judge.

This case involves a dispute between two cable television companies in Huntington, Long Island, in competition for subscribers to sports programs covering the games of the Yankees, the Mets, the Islanders, and the Nets. Huntington is a town of 54,000 homes, presenting an unusual situation in the cable television systems industry in that two "overbuilt" television systems have franchises and are competing head-to-head for subscribers to their...

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