Knology, Inc. v. Insight Communications Company, L.P. Insight Kentucky Partners Ii, L.P.

OPINION

COOK, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-Appellants Insight Communications Company, L.P., and Insight Kentucky Partners II, L.P. (collectively “Insight”) appeal the district court’s decision denying Insight immunity from Plaintiff-Appellee Knology, Inc.’s Sherman Act and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims. Because the Noerr-Pennington doctrine insulates Insight from liability for its activities here, we reverse the district court’s decision.

I. Facts and Procedural History

Insight and Knology are cable television service providers. In 1998, the City of Louisville, Kentucky, passed Ordinance 76, granting…