Keystone Resources, Inc. v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

DIAMOND, District Judge.

Plaintiff Keystone Resources has sued defendants American Telephone & Telegraph (“AT & T”), Western Electric, and Nassau Recycle Corporation (“Nassau”) under the antitrust laws, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1, 2, 15. Before us is defendants’ motion for summary judgment. We hold that the statute of limitations, 15 U.S.C. §§ 15b, 16(i), bars Keystone’s claim, and we grant summary judgment for the defendants. 1

I. Background

In the early 1970s, Keystone recycled communications copper wire for Nassau, a subsidiary of Western Electric, at Keystone’s plants in Mars,…