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

No. 09 Civ. 2227(PAC).

123 F.Supp.3d 478 (2015)

ANDERSON NEWS, L.L.C. and Lloyd Whitaker, as the Assignee under an Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors for Anderson Services, L.L.C., Plaintiffs, v. AMERICAN MEDIA, INC., Bauer Publishing Co., L.P., Curtis Circulation: Company, Distribution Services, Inc., Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., Inc., Hearst Communications, Inc., Hudson News Distributors LLC, Kable Distribution Services, Inc., Rodale, Inc., Time Inc., and Time/Warner: Retail Sales & Marketing, Inc., Defendants. American Media, Inc., Hearst Communications, Inc., and Time Inc., Counterclaim-Plaintiffs, v. Anderson News, L.L.C. and Charles Anderson, Jr., Counterclaim-Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

Signed August 20, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Constantine Z. Pamphilis , Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, LLP, Houston, TX, Gavin Douglas Schryver , Seth B. Davis , Christine A. Montenegro , Daniel R. Benson , Hector Torres , Kevin Allen Cyrulnik , Marc E. Kasowitz , Seth A. Moskowitz , Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, LLP, Jennifer Taina Chavez , Thomas Patrick Lynch , Lynch Rowin LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff.

David George Keyko , Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP, Barry J. Brett , Daniel Nathan Anziska , Kevin Patrick Wallace , Troutman Sanders LLP, Joseph Francis Donley , Lawrence Andrew Reicher , Dechert, LLP, David George Keyko , Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP, Eva Marie Saketkoo , Jonathan R. Donnellan , Kristina E. Findikyan , Kristen L. Hauser , Hearst Corporation Office of General Counsel, Isaac M. Bayda , Jay A. Katz , McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP, John M. Hadlock , Alexander Lycoyannis , Rosenberg & Estis, Rowan Dudley Wilson , Thomas G. Rafferty , Antony L. Ryan , Daniel Paul Margolskee , Rachel Marie Fritzler , Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, Andrew Bruce Lachow , Time Inc. Law Department, New York, NY, George G. Gordon , Jennings F. Durand , Dechert LLP, Philadelphia, PA, Paul H. Friedman , Dechert, LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendant.


OPINION & ORDER

If there were ever an antitrust case of the pot calling the kettle black, this is it. In mid-January 2009, Anderson News, which had been losing money for years, unilaterally decided to raise its prices and shift its inventory costs...

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