COLUMBIA PICTURES v. PROFESSIONAL REAL ESTATE INV.

Nos. 90-55583, 90-55668.

944 F.2d 1525 (1991)

COLUMBIA PICTURES INDUSTRIES, INC.; Embassy Pictures; Paramount Pictures Corporation; Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation; Universal City Studios, Inc.; Walt Disney Productions; Warner Bros. Inc.; CBS, Inc., Plaintiffs-counter-defendants-Appellees, v. PROFESSIONAL REAL ESTATE INVESTORS, INC.; Kenneth F. Irwin, Defendants-counter-claimants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided September 24, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey W. King, Collier, Shannon & Scott, Washington, D.C., for defendants-counter-claimants-appellants.

Stephen A. Kroft, Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman, Beverly Hills, Cal., for plaintiffs-counter-defendants-appellees.

Before FLETCHER and CANBY, Circuit Judges, and McNICHOLS, District Judge.


CANBY, Circuit Judge:

Counterclaimants Professional Real Estate Investors and Kenneth Irwin (collectively "PRE") appeal from the entry of an order granting summary judgment in favor of the counterdefendants Columbia Pictures Industries and seven other movie studios (collectively "Columbia Pictures" or "Movie Studios").1 This appeal involves the propriety of the summary judgment and the applicability of the Noerr-Pennington doctrine...

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