ALPHA LYRACOM SPACE COMMUNICATIONS, INC. v. COMSAT CORPORATION

No. 1424, Docket 96-9283.

113 F.3d 372 (1997)

ALPHA LYRACOM SPACE COMMUNICATIONS, INC., a Delaware Corporation; Reverge Anselmo and Mary Anselmo, executors of the estate of plaintiff Reynold V. Anselmo, an individual, doing business as Pan American Satellite, a sole proprietorship; and Panamsat, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. COMSAT CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 15, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel R. Shulman, Minneapolis, MN, Joseph M. Alioto, San Francisco, CA (Terry M. Walcott, Shulman, Walcott & Shulman, Minneapolis, MN; Henry Goldberg, Goldberg, Godles, Wiener & Wright, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Mark D. Wegener, Washington, D.C., Lisa J. Sacks, Martin F. Cunniff, Howrey & Simon, Washington, D.C.; Thomas J. Sweeney, III, Davis, Scott, Weber & Edwards, New York City; Warren Y. Zeger, Keith H. Fagan, COMSAT Corporation, Bethesda, MD (on the brief, for defendant-appellee).

Before: NEWMAN, Chief Judge, MESKILL, Circuit Judge, and CEDARBAUM, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

This appeal concerns the narrow question of whether, under a prior decision of this Circuit in the same case, certain activities of COMSAT Corporation undertaken in its role as the United States representative to the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization ("Intelsat") are immune from discovery and consideration as probative evidence in an antitrust suit. Plaintiffs Alpha Lyracom Space Communications...

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