Kemper v. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

OPINION AND ORDER

CARL B. RUBIN, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on defendant’s motion for summary judgment pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 56. Defendant, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., has submitted affidavits and exhibits in support of its motion; plaintiff, John A. Kemper, Jr., has submitted nothing beyond his pleadings.

The gravamen of the plaintiff’s action rests on two contentions: (1) that the defendant caused the plaintiff to hire and pay a nonexistent consultant for the purpose of gaining an ABC affiliation for Kittyhawk Television Corporation and, that when these facts…