Home Box Office, Inc. v. Directors Guild of America, Inc.

Full title: HOME BOX OFFICE, INC., PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v. DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA…

Court: United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

Date published: Jun 1, 1983

708 F.2d 95 (2d Cir. 1983)

Opinion

No. 240, Docket 82-7164.

Argued October 21, 1982.

Decided June 1, 1983.

George C. Gallantz, New York City, (Proskauer Rose Goetz Mendelsohn, Bettina Plevan, David Aronson, Bradley Ruskin, John Redpath, Shelley Fischel, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Sidney Dickstein, New York City (Dickstein, Shapiro Morin, Joel Kleinman, Woody Peterson, Michael Nannes, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Before OAKES and WINTER, Circuit Judges, and METZNER, District Judge.^_

_ The Honorable Charles M. Metzner, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, sitting by designation.

PER CURIAM:

The judgment below is affirmed for substantially the reasons given by Judge Sofaer in holding that the actions and agreements of the Guild are protected by the "statutory" and "non-statutory" exemptions of labor union activities from the antitrust laws. Home Box Office, Inc. v. Directors Guild of America, 531 F.Supp. 578 (S.D.N.Y. 1982).