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IN RE DUAL-DECK VIDEO CASSETTE ANTITRUST LIT.

No. 92-15967.

10 F.3d 693 (1993)

In re DUAL-DECK VIDEO CASSETTE RECORDER ANTITRUST LITIGATION. GO-VIDEO, INC., an Arizona Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, Victor Company of Japan, Ltd., Sony Corporation, et al., Defendants, and Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co., Ltd., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided December 2, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph M. Alioto, The Law Firm of Joseph M. Alioto, San Francisco, CA, Daniel R. Shulman, Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett, Minneapolis, MN, for plaintiff-appellant.

Debra J. Pearlstein, A. Paul Victor, and Jay N. Fastow, Weil Gotshal & Manges, New York City, for defendant-appellee.

Before: ALARCÓN, LEAVY and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.

KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge:

The district court held Go-Video in contempt for using discovery from its earlier lawsuit to support a later lawsuit, in violation of a protective order. We reverse.

I. Facts

Go-Video sued Matsushita and other defendants for antitrust violations in 1987. As is common now in business litigation, the parties signed a stipulation for a very broad protective order prohibiting use of disclosure of material obtained in discovery...

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