JKC HOLDING CO. LLC v. WASHINGTON SPORTS VENTURES

No. 00-2511.

264 F.3d 459 (2001)

JKC HOLDING COMPANY LLC, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WASHINGTON SPORTS VENTURES, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellant, and WFI Group, Incorporated, formerly known as Jack Kent Cooke, Incorporated; The Estate of Jack Kent Cooke, Defendants-Appellees, and Gregory R. Dillon; Mark Pollak; Howard B. Soloway, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 7, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: David Boies, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, L.L.P., Armonk, NY, for Appellant. Paul J. Mode, Jr., Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, DC, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Alan B. Vickery, Christopher M. Green, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, L.L.P., Armonk, NY; Jonathan D. Schiller, Carol J. Nichols, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Appellant. David P. Donovan, Melanie D. Coates, Laura B. Kotanchik, Joshua R. Stebbins, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering; Thomas C. Green, Mark D. Hopson, Griffith L. Green, Kristin Graham Koehler, Sidley & Austin, Washington, DC, for Appellees.

Before WILKINSON, Chief Judge, NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge, and Irene M. KEELEY, Chief United States District Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation.


Affirmed by published opinion. Chief Judge KEELEY wrote the opinion, in which Chief Judge WILKINSON and Judge NIEMEYER joined.

OPINION

KEELEY, Chief Judge:

In this case we are asked to determine whether JKC Holding Company LLC ["JKC Holding"] engaged in wrongdoing to prevent the sale of the Washington Redskins professional football team to Washington Sports Ventures, Inc. ["WSV"]. WSV failed in its attempt to purchase the Redskins from the Estate...

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