United States v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.

BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judge:

This is a consolidated appeal by five non-party witnesses who were subpoenaed to produce massive quantities of documents and deposition testimony for use in antitrust suits brought by the Justice Department. The issues are whether this court has jurisdiction to review the district court’s order denying the nonparty witnesses’ post-production motion for reimbursement of their substantial discovery costs, and, if so, whether the denial of reimbursement without stated reasons constituted an abuse of discretion.

We conclude that the order was final as to these nonparty…