EPSTEIN v. MCA, INC.

No. 92-55675.

126 F.3d 1235 (1997)

Lawrence EPSTEIN; John Linder; Jane Rockford, as trustee of the Michael J. Rockford Trust; Maurice Karlin; Ruth Karlin; Beth Ann Karlin; Bert P. Karlin, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MCA, INC.; Matsushita Acquisition Corporation; Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., LTD; Matsushita Holding Corporation; Lew Wasserman; Sidney J. Sheinberg, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided October 22, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry Paul Monaghan, Harold Edgar, New York City; Irving Malchman, Roger W. Kirby, Peter S. Linden, Kaufman, Malchman, Kirby & Squire, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Alan B. Morrison, Brian Wolfman, Washington, DC, for amici curiae plaintiffs-appellants.

Barry R. Ostrager, Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett, New York City; Eleanor M. Fox, New York City; Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for defendants-appellees.

Daniel J. Popeo, Richard A. Samp, Washington, DC, for amici curiae defendants-appellees.

Before: NORRIS, WIGGINS, and O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges.


Opinion by Judge WILLIAM A. NORRIS; Dissent by Judge O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges.

WILLIAM A. NORRIS, Circuit Judge:

This case is before us on remand from the United States Supreme Court. In Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. v. Epstein, ___ U.S. ___, 116 S.Ct. 873, 134 L.Ed.2d 6 (1996) ("Matsushita"), the Court reversed our judgment in Epstein v. MCA, Inc., 50 F.3d 644 (9th Cir.1995) ("Epstein I"

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