Legal Opinion
Coastal States Marketing, Inc. And Valero Energy Corporation, Cross-Appellees v. Nelson Bunker Hunt, Cross-Appellants
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 14, 1983No. 81-2303PublishedCited by 124 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
The issue is whether petitioning immunity 1 shields from antitrust scrutiny the defendants’ pursuit of companies dealing in nationalized Libyan oil. The district court concluded that substantially all of the defendants’ conduct was undertaken to obtain relief from courts in this country and abroad. The court, therefore, directed a verdict in defendants’ favor at the close of the plaintiffs’ case.
We have carefully reviewed the entire record. It is clear that the challenged conduct was, at least facially, undertaken to obtain judicial relief and that at least a…
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