In Re Dual-Deck Video Cassette Recorder Antitrust Litigation. Go-Video, Inc.

10 F.3d 693 1993-2 Trade Cases P 70,431 , 27 Fed.R.Serv.3d 465 In re DUAL-DECK VIDEO CASSETTE RECORDER ANTITRUST LITIGATION. GO-VIDEO, INC., an Arizona Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, Victor Company of Japan, Ltd., Sony Corporation, et al., Defendants, and Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co., Ltd., Defendant-Appellee. No. 92-15967. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Nov. 3, 1993. Decided Dec. 2, 1993. Joseph M. Alioto, The Law Firm of Joseph M. Alioto, San Francisco, CA, Daniel R. Shulman, Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett, Minneapolis, MN, for plaintiff-appellant. Debra J. Pearlstein, A. Paul Victor, and Jay N. Fastow, Weil Gotshal & Manges, New York City, for defendant-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. Before: ALARCON, LEAVY and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges. KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge: 1 The district court held Go-Video in contempt for using discovery from its earlier lawsuit to support a later lawsuit, in violation of a protective order. We reverse. I. Facts 2 Go-Video sued Matsushita and other defendants for antitrust violations in 1987. As…