Z Channel Limited Partnership v. Home Box Office, Inc.

931 F.2d 1338 59 USLW 2725 , 1991-1 Trade Cases 69,452 , 21 Fed.R.Serv.3d 1239 Z CHANNEL LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HOME BOX OFFICE, INC.; MGM/UA Telecommunications, Inc.; Paramount Pictures Corporation; Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation; Warner Brothers, Inc. Defendants-Appellees. No. 88-6576. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted March 7, 1990. Decided April 30, 1991. Maxwell M. Blecher, Blecher & Collins, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant. John D. Donovan and Frank Rothman, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant-appellee, Home Box Office, Inc. James A. Schreier, Christensen, White, Miller, Fink & Jacobs, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant-appellee, MGM/UA Telecommunications, Inc. Louis A. Meisinger, Hill, Wynne, Troop & Meisinger, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant-appellee, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Before CANBY, KOZINSKI and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges. CANBY, Circuit Judge: 1 In this antitrust action, Z Channel Limited Partnership appeals the district court's grant of summary…