United States Second Circuit

FRCP Rule 54(b) certification of final judgment was improper where a grant of partial summary to defendants in an antitrust action, on grounds that plaintiff lacked standing to challenge certain overseas conduct of defendants, did not have necessary elements of finality.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/07/2002
• Decided 05/24/2002
• Published 05/24/2002

Judges

• SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge., Before: POOLER and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges, and GARAUFIS, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Brian P. Norton,Freeborn & Peters, Chicago, IL, (Michael J. Kelly, Michael P. Kornak, David S. BeckerFreeborn & Peters, Chicago, IL, and Victor S. Friedman, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, New York, N.Y. on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sidney S. Rosdeitcher, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York, N.Y. (Leslie Gordon Fagan, Robert S. Smith, Aidan Synnott, Daniel A. Crane, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.