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HOME PLACEMENT SERVICE v. PROVIDENCE JOURNAL CO.

Nos. 86-1881, 86-1959.

819 F.2d 1199 (1987)

HOME PLACEMENT SERVICE, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. The PROVIDENCE JOURNAL COMPANY, Defendant, Appellee. HOME PLACEMENT SERVICE, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. The PROVIDENCE JOURNAL COMPANY, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 1, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph J. Gonnella with whom Lynette Labinger, Providence, R.I., was on brief, for Home Placement Service, Inc.

Joseph V. Cavanagh, Jr. with whom Knight Edwards and Patricia A.S. Zesk, Providence, R.I., were on brief, for The Providence Journal Co.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, COFFIN and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judges.

COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

This aged and oft-detoured antitrust case originated in the District of Rhode Island and, in the course of its existence, has led to the disqualification or recusal of all federal judges sitting in that district. Appellants Home Placement Service, Inc. and Joseph P. Muschiano, Jr. (collectively referred to as "Home Placement") initiated this litigation in 1977, alleging that appellee Providence Journal Company (the "Journal") had violated sections...

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