ANDERSON NEWS, L.L.C. v. AMERICAN MEDIA, INC.

Docket Nos. 15-2714-cv(L), 15-2889-cv(XAP), 15-2894-cv(XAP), 15-2903-cv(XAP) August Term, 2016.

899 F.3d 87 (2018)

ANDERSON NEWS, L.L.C., Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, Lloyd T. Whitaker, as the Assignee under an Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors for Anderson Services, L.L.C., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMERICAN MEDIA, INC., Time Inc., Hearst Communications, Inc., Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, Bauer Publishing Co., LP., Curtis Circulation Company, Distribution Services, Inc., Hachette Filipacchi Media, U.S., Inc., Kable Distribution Services, Inc., Rodale, Inc., Time Warner Retail Sales & Marketing, Inc., Defendants-Appellees, Hudson News Distributors LLC, The News Group, LP, Defendants, v. Charles Anderson, Jr., Counter-Defendant-Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: July 19, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

MICHAEL K. KELLOGG ( Joshua D. Branson , Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC; Marc E. Kasowitz , Hector Torres, Seth Davis, Kasowitz, Benson, Torrest & Friedman LLP, New York, NY, on the brief), Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee Anderson News L.L.C. and Counter-Defendant-Cross-Appellee Charles Anderson, Jr.

Thomas P. Lynch , Lynch Rowin LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant Lloyd T. Whitaker, as the Assignee under Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors of Anderson Services, L.L.C.

DAVID G. KEYKO ( Eric Xinis Fishman , on the brief), Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant American Media, Inc., and Defendant-Appellee Distribution Services, Inc.

DANIEL N. ANZISKA , Kevin P. Wallace , Troutman Sanders LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Bauer Publishing Co., LP.

GEORGE G. GORDON ( Jennings Durand , on the brief), Dechert LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for Defendant-Appellee Curtis Circulation Company.

JAY A. KATZ ( Isaac Michael Bayda , on the brief), McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Kable Distribution Services, Inc.

JOHN M. HADLOCK ( Alexander Lycoyannis , on the brief), Rosenberg & Estis, P.C., New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Rodale, Inc.

ROWAN D. WILSON ( Thomas G. Rafferty , Antony L. Ryan , on the brief), Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant Time Inc. and Defendant-Appellee Time Warner Retail Sales & Marketing, Inc.

Jonathan R. Donnellan , Eva M. Saketkoo , Hearst Corporation, Office of the General Counsel, New York, NY, for Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant Hearst Communications, Inc. (as successor-in-interest to Appellee Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., Inc.).

Before: Livingston, Chin, and Carney, Circuit Judges.


Plaintiffs-appellants Anderson News, L.L.C., and Anderson Services, L.L.C., (together, "Anderson") appeal from an award of summary judgment to defendants on Anderson's allegation that, in early 2009, defendants conspired to boycott Anderson and drive it out of business, in violation of section 1 of the Sherman Act...

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