DELTA COMPUTER CORP. v. FRANK

No. 98-31238 Summary Calendar.

196 F.3d 589 (1999)

DELTA COMPUTER CORP., Plaintiff, v. Walter J. FRANK, Jr., et al., Defendants, TEC Services, Inc., et al., formally known as TEC Communication Services; Bay Springs Telephone Co., Inc., wholly owned subsidiary of Telephone Electronics Corp., Defendants-Appellants, Telephone Electronics Corp.; Communigroup of Alabama, Inc., wholly owned subsidiary of Communigroup, Inc.; Lecnet, Inc., formerly known as Communigroup of the Gulf Coast, Inc.; Communigroup, Inc., wholly owned subsidiary of Telephone Electronics Corp.; Communigroup of Jackson, Inc., wholly owned subsidiary of Communigroup, Inc.; Crockett Telephone Co., Inc., wholly owned subsidiary of Telephone Electronics Corp.; Comnet, Inc., wholly owned subsidiary of Telephone Electronics Corp.; National Telephone of Alabama, Inc., wholly owned subsidiary of Telephone Electronics Corp.; Communigroup of North Alabama, Inc., partially owned subsidiary of Communigroup Inc.; Peoples Telephone Co., Inc., wholly owned subsidiary of Telephone Electronics Corp.; Roanoke Telephone Co., Inc., wholly owned subsidiary of Telephone Electronics; Tecnet Inc., wholly owned subsidiary of Telephone Electronics Corp.; Telephone Electronics Corp. West, wholly owned subsidiary of Telephone Electronics Corp.; Video Inc., wholly owned subsidiary of Telephone Electronics Corp.; Vartec Telecom, Inc., formally known as Vartec National, Inc.; West Tennessee Telephone Co., Inc., wholly owned subsidiary of Telephone Electronics Corp., Defendants-Third Party, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. United States Fire Insurance Co., Third Party Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 2, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clyde M. Hettrick, Troop, Steuber, Pasich, Roddick & Tobey, Los Angeles, CA, Lawrence Scott Patton, Boles, Boles & Ryan, Monroe, LA, for Defendants-Appellants.

Francis P. Accardo, Montgomery, Barnett, Brown, Read, Hammond & Mintz, New Orleans, LA, for United States Fire Ins. Co.

Before REYNALDO G. GARZA, HIGGINBOTHAM and JONES, Circuit Judges.


REYNALDO G. GARZA, Circuit Judge:

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

This is an insurance coverage dispute that arose from a copyright infringement case. The underlying copyright litigation began in July 1996, when Delta Computer Corporation ("DCC") filed suit alleging that Delta Computer Leasing, LM Data, Walter L. Frank and other partners of LM Data, Telephone Electronics Corporation ("TEC"), and thirty TEC subsidiaries, misappropriated DCC's copyrighted...

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