Universal Athletic Sales Co. v. American Gym, Recreational & Athletic Equipment Corp.

OPINION AND ORDER REFUSING TO DISQUALIFY COUNSEL FOR DEFENDANT

KNOX, District Judge.

In this case, wherein the proceedings were initiated by attorneys for plaintiff seeking to disqualify counsel for defendant, we have another situation where, as noted by Judge Van Artsdalen in the lower court opinion in Richardson v. Hamilton International Corp., 333 F.Supp. 1049 (E.D.Pa.1971), “different and possibly conflicting policies of the law become apparent”. On the one hand, we have the principles recently elucidated by the Court of Appeals for this Circuit in Richardson v. Hamilton International…