DOW JONES/GROUP W TELEVISION COMPANY, Dow Jones & Company, Inc., and Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, Inc., Plaintiffs,
v.
NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC., CNBC, Inc., and Consumer News and Business Channel Partnership, Defendants.
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, Plaintiff,
v.
CONSUMER NEWS AND BUSINESS CHANNEL PARTNERSHIP, Defendant.
United States District Court, S.D. New York.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
May 10, 1991.
May 10, 1991.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Robert P. LoBue, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler (Stephen Younger, of counsel), New York City, Dickstein, Shapior & Morin (James vanR. Springer, R. Bruce Holcomb, of counsel), Washington, D.C., Bernard Nash, New York City, for Dow Jones/Group W Television Co., Dow Jones & Co., Inc. and Westinghouse Broadcasting Co.
Bruce R. Zirinsky, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City, and Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C., and Coudert Brothers (Brian Rosen, Deborah Deitsch-Perez, Laura Sillins, Roseann Pisem, Banks Tarver, Roger Assad, of counsel), New York City, for Consumer News and Business Channel Partnership, Nat. Broadcasting Co., Inc. and CNBC, Inc.
Michael A. Rosenthal, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (Ronald S. Orr, Cynthia C. Lebow, David H. Kennedy, of counsel), New York City, for Financial News Network, Inc.
Ernest D. Preate, Jr., Atty. Gen., Com. of Pa., Daniel Clearfield, Executive Deputy Atty. Gen., Public Protection Div. by Carl S. Hisiro, Sr. Deputy Atty. Gen., David R. Weyle, Deputy Atty. Gen., Antitrust Section, Harrisburg, Pa., for Com. of Pa.
Fred E. Silverman, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., State of Del., Wilmington, Del., amicus.
United States District Court, S.D. New York.
LASKER, District Judge.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of Illinois move to withdraw their antitrust cases1 from the Bankruptcy Court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 157(d), and the Consumer News and Business Channel Partnership (CNBC) moves to refer Dow Jones/Group W's antitrust suit, No. 91-3101 (MEL) (S.D.N.Y.), to the Bankruptcy Court pursuant to § 157(a).
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