AD/SAT, A DIVISION OF SKYLIGHT, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
ASSOCIATED PRESS, Newspaper Association of America, National Newspaper Network, The Newark Star Ledger, The Birmingham News Company, Advance Publications, Inc., Donald E. Newhouse, The Oakland Press Co., The News & Observer Publishing Company, Oklahoma Publishing Company, The Lexington Herald-leader, Dayton Newspapers, Inc., and Cox Enterprises, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued: December 5, 1996.
Decided: June 23, 1999.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Daniel R. Shulman, Minneapolis, Minn., Joseph M. Alioto, San Francisco, Cal. (Terry M. Walcott, Shulman, Walcott & Shulman, Minneapolis, Minn.; David E. Nachman, Solomon, Zauderer, Ellenhorn, Frischer & Sharp, New York, N.Y., on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant.
Dennis J. Drebsky, New York, N.Y. (Richard N. Winfield, Hilary Lane, John A. Nathanson, Gregory G. Marshall, Rogers & Wells, New York, N.Y., on the brief), for defendant-appellee Associated Press.
Yvonne S. Quinn, New York, N.Y. (Timothy J. Helwick, Andrew Rotstein, Sullivan & Cromwell, New York, N.Y., on the brief), for defendants-appellees Newark Morning Ledger Co., The Birmingham News Company, Advance Publications, Inc., and Donald E. Newhouse.
Conrad M. Shumadine, Norfolk, Va. (Frank A. Edgar, Jr., Willcox & Savage, Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for defendant-appellee The News & Observer Publishing Company.
Patricia Farren, Matthew S. Wild, Cahill Gordon & Reindel, New York, N.Y., submitted a brief for defendants-appellees Newspaper Association of America and National Newspaper Network.
James A. Treanor, III, Timothy J. O'Rourke, Scott D. Dailard, Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, Washington, D.C., submitted a brief for defendants-appellees Dayton Newspapers, Inc. and Cox Enterprises, Inc.
A. Douglas Melamed, James W. Lowe, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C., submitted a brief for defendant-appellee The Oakland Press Company.
Robert P. Reznick, James B. Kobak, Jr., Hughes Hubbard & Reed, New York, N.Y., submitted a brief for defendant-appellee Lexington Herald-Leader.
Thomas J. Lilly, Lilly & Bienstock, Garden City, N.Y., submitted a brief for defendant-appellee Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Before: WINTER, Chief Judge, NEWMAN, and WALKER, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
PER CURIAM:
This case involves allegations of anticompetitive conduct in the market for delivery of advertisements to newspapers. The plaintiff-appellant, AD/SAT, was engaged in the business of electronically transmitting advertisements to newspapers from the mid-1980s until 1996. After the Associated Press ("AP") launched a similar service in 1994, AD/SAT accused the AP of violating section 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 2, by (i) attempting to monopolize...
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