Case Name: HOME BOX OFFICE, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA, INC., Robert B. Aldrich, Michael H. Franklin, Ernest Ricca and Glenn Gumpel, Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1983-06-01
Citations: 708 F.2d 95
Docket Number: No. 240, Docket 82-7164
Parties: HOME BOX OFFICE, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA, INC., Robert B. Aldrich, Michael H. Franklin, Ernest Ricca and Glenn Gumpel, Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 708
Pages: 95–95

Head Matter:
HOME BOX OFFICE, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA, INC., Robert B. Aldrich, Michael H. Franklin, Ernest Ricca and Glenn Gumpel, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 240, Docket 82-7164.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Argued Oct. 21, 1982.
Decided June 1, 1983.
George C. Gallantz, New York City, (Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn, Bet-tina Plevan, David Aronson, Bradley Ruskin, John Redpath, Shelley Fischel, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.
Sidney Dickstein, New York City (Dick-stein, Shapiro & Morin, Joel Kleinman, Woody Peterson, Michael Nannes, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-ap-pellees.
Before OAKES and WINTER, Circuit Judges, and METZNER, District Judge.
The Honorable Charles M. Metzner, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
The judgment below is affirmed for substantially the reasons given by Judge So-faer in holding that the actions and agreements of the Guild are protected by the "statutory" and "non-statutory" exemptions of labor union activities from the antitrust laws. Home Box Office, Inc. v. Directors Guild of America, 531 F.Supp. 578 (S.D.N.Y.1982).