NATIONAL RURAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS COOPERATIVE v. DIRECTV, INC.

Nos. CV 99-5666 LGB(CWX), CIV 00-8672 LGB, CV 00-00368 LGB, CIV 01-6220 LGB, CV 00-2117 LGB.

319 F.Supp.2d 1040 (2003)

NATIONAL RURAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS COOPERATIVE, Plaintiff, v. DIRECTV, INC., Hughes Communications Galaxy, Inc. Defendants.

United States District Court, C.D. California.

May 22, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Quinn, Jr., Sharon Douglass Mayo, David S. Eisen, James D. Layden, Arnold & Porter, Elizabeth D. Mann, James T. Grant, McDermott Will & Emery, Los Angeles, CA, Joseph P. Crimmins, Jon C. Cowen, Posternak Blankstein & Lund, Boston, MA, Abbe David Lowell, Chadbourne & Parke, Thomas H. Yancey, Joseph R. Guerra, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Washington, DC, Larry R. Feldman, Joel N. Klevens, Fogel Feldman Ostrov Ringler & Klevens, Gregory A. Nylen, Jeffrey E. Scott, Raymond B. Kim, Greenberg Traurig, Santa Monica, CA, Michael Anthony Lindsay, Dorsey & Whitney, Minneapolis, MN, for Plaintiff.

John I. Lazar, Leonard D. Venger, Sam S. Puathasnanon, Manatt Phelps & Phillips, Los Angeles, CA, Dustin F. Hecker, Posternak Blankstein & Lund, Boston, MA, for Plaintiff and Counter-Defendant.

Steven E. Bledsoe, Peter F. Smith, Kirkland & Ellis, Los Angeles, CA, for Defendants.

R. Alexander Pilmer, Kirkland & Ellis, Los Angeles, CA, for Defendants and Third-Party Plaintiff.

Richard K. Welsh, Kirkland & Ellis, Los Angeles, CA, for Third-Party Plaintiff.

Rebecca J. Wahlquist, Kirkland & Ellis, Los Angeles, CA, for Counter-Defendant.

Michael E. Baumann, for Defendants, Third-Party Plaintiff and Counter-Claimant.

April L. Ammeter, Mark T. Cramer, Kirkland & Ellis, Los Angeles, CA, for Defendants and Counter-Claimant.


ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART DIRECTV'S SUMMARY JUDGMENT MOTION NO. 1

BAIRD, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This matter involves five cases dealing with DIRECTV, Inc. ("DIRECTV") that have been consolidated before this Court.1 Presently before the Court are four summary judgment motions filed by DIRECTV. By this Order, the Court addresses DIRECTV's first summary judgment motion dealing with the issues...

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