Legal Opinion
Olympia Equipment Leasing Company, Alfco Telecommunications Company, and Abraham Feldman v. Western Union Telegraph Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 25, 1986No. 85-3154PublishedCited by 109 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs (“Olympia” for short) obtained a $36 million antitrust judgment *796(after trebling) against Western Union Telegraph Company, the principal subsidiary of Western Union Company. Western Union Telegraph wanted a stay of execution of judgment pending appeal to this court, and ordinarily to get a stay it would have had to post a supersedeas bond for the full amount of the judgment. Fed.R. Civ.P. 62(d). It urged the district judge to allow alternative security, on the ground that it could not post a $36 million bond. Although Western Union Telegraph is a large…
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