ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE CO. v. HAINES AND CO., INC.

No. 89-2207.

905 F.2d 1081 (1990)

ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. HAINES AND COMPANY, INC., Haines Criss + Cross Publishers, Inc., William K. Haines, Sr., and William K. Haines, Jr., Defendants-Appellants. HAINES AND COMPANY, INC., and Haines Criss + Cross Publishers, Inc., Counterclaimants-Appellants, v. ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, Counterdefendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 25, 1990.

Order on Denial of Rehearing and Rehearing August 6, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Guritz, L. Bow Pritchett, Ronald E. Cundiff, James R. Bryant, Jr., Chicago, Ill., Michael Kellogg, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Edward G. Wierzbicki, Jeremiah D. McAuliffe, Craig S. Fochler, Thomas P. Arden, Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson, Chicago, Ill., Bernard A. Barken, St. Louis, Mo., for defendants-appellants and counterclaimants-appellants.

Richard D. Grauer, Frank K. Zinn, Dykema & Gossett, Detroit, Mich., for Cross Reference Directory Publishers amicus curiae.

Lawrence Gunnels, Rosanne J. Faraci, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, Ill., for Illinois Telephone Ass'n, Inc. amicus curiae.

John C. McNett, Spiro Bereveskos, Woodard, Emhardt, Naughton, Moriarty & McNett, Indianapolis, Ind., James E. Taylor, Jack C. Lorenz, St. Louis, Mo., for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. amicus curiae.

Before FLAUM and KANNE, Circuit Judges, and NOLAND, Senior District Judge.


Order on Denial of Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc August 6, 1990.

FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

Illinois Bell Telephone Company ("Illinois Bell") brought suit against Haines and Company, Inc., ("Haines") for copying information from its "white pages" telephone directory and including it in Haines' street address directory and thus infringing on Illinois Bell's copyright. Haines counterclaimed for alleged Sherman Act violations by Illinois Bell. The district court...

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