TRIBUNE COMPANY; Tribune New York Holdings, Inc., now merged with WPIX Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
Hamid ABIOLA et al., Defendants-Appellants.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued July 19, 1995.
Decided September 11, 1995.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Michael M. Connery, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, New York City (Julie B. Carlin-Sasaki, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, of counsel), for defendant-appellant New York newspaper Printing Pressmen's Union No. 2.
Kenneth Gordon, Steven J. Saltiel, Gordon & Gordon, P.C., New York City, for defendants-appellants Robert P. Allen, Jr., George Baltzer, et al.
William G. O'Donnell, O'Donnell & Fox, P.C., New York City, for defendants-appellants Robert A. Purcigliotti and Cascione, Chechanover & Purcigliotti.
Raymond A. Levites, Diane Britton, Pavelic & Levites, New York City, for defendant-appellant Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union, New York and Vicinity.
Garbrielle Semel, Weissman & Mintz, New York City, and Richard Rosenblatt, Boyle, Tyburski, Toll & Rosenblatt, Englewood, Colo., for defendant-appellant New York Mailers' Union No. 6, Printing Publishing and Media Workers Sector of the Communications Workers of America.
David S. Frankel, Kramer, Levin, Naftalis, Nessen, Kamin & Frankel, New York City, for defendant-appellant Dr. Walter Stingle.
Andrew S. Hoffman, Wiseman, Hoffman & Walzer, New York City, for defendants-appellants William Adam, Louis Adesso, et al.
Mitchell Segal, Mitchell Segal, P.C., Great Neck, NY, for defendants-appellants Carmine Bucco, Jr., Carmine Bucco, Sr., et al.
M. Patricia Smith, Assistant Attorney General, State of New York, New York City, N.Y. (Dennis C. Vacco, Attorney General, Jane Lauer Barker, Assistant Attorney General in Charge of Labor Bureau, New York City, of counsel), for intervenor-appellant NYS Workers' Compensation Board.
Steven M. Bierman, Sidley & Austin, New York City (Alan M. Unger, Sidley & Austin, New York City, Richard S. Busch, King & Ballow, Nashville, Tenn., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.
Before: WINTER, CALABRESI and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:
We are asked to decide whether a district court may abstain from exercising its jurisdiction pursuant to Burford v. Sun Oil Co.,319 U.S. 315, 63 S.Ct. 1098, 87 L.Ed. 1424 (1943), when a plaintiff asserts claims only for money damages.
The Tribune Company and its parent corporation, former owners of the New York Daily News, filed an action against numerous defendants: several...
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