MARTINDELL v. NEWS GROUP PUBLICATIONS

Nos. 79 CV 2723, 80 CV 107 (ERN).

580 F.Supp. 330 (1984)

Robert MARTINDELL, Plaintiff, v. NEWS GROUP PUBLICATIONS, INC., Rupert Murdoch, Crescent News Distributors, Inc., Woodhaven News Company, Long Island News Corp., Charles Werner, Robert Dever, and William Teubner, Defendants. Robert MARTINDELL, Charles Verderosa, John Mandrachia, Bernard Leventhal, John Goncharuk, Richard Carberry, Jack Scaccia, Richard Dennis, Maurice Fox, Charles Flugger, Manny Zuccaro, Joe Rosa, Clifford Rosenberg, Francine Fuhrmann, James Eythe & Joseph Sharnow, Plaintiffs, v. NEWS GROUP PUBLICATIONS, INC., Rupert Murdoch, Crescent News Distributors, Inc., Woodhaven News Company, Long Island News Corp., Frank Avitable, Al Von Entrence, John Renke, William Paravella, William Dalton, Frank Sherman, Joseph De Domenico, William Noonan, Richard Johnson, Edward Quinn, Defendants.

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

January 31, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sandback & Birnbaum by Donald H. Birnbaum, Garden City, N.Y., for plaintiffs.

Squadron, Ellenoff, Plesent & Lehrer by Neal M. Goldman, New York City, for defendant News Group.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

NEAHER, District Judge.

In these consolidated cases, plaintiffs challenge the legality of a newspaper publisher's pricing schedule as violative of § 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1, 4 and 15. The following facts are not in dispute.

The plaintiffs distributed copies of the New York Post to home delivery carriers. Until the Fall of 1978, defendant News...

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