Legal Opinion
Nishimura v. Dolan
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided October 19, 1984No. Civ. A. 83-0085PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARTELS, District Judge.
This case involves a dispute between two cable television companies in Huntington, Long Island, in competition for subscribers to sports programs covering the games of the Yankees, the Mets, the Islanders, and the Nets. Huntington is a town of 54,000 homes, presenting an unusual situation in the cable - television systems industry in that two “overbuilt” television systems have franchises and are competing head-to-head for subscribers to their respective systems. Plaintiffs, owning one of the systems, invoke the antitrust laws in challenging the conduct of its…
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