
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, December 16, 1994                   TAG: 9501180033
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A-21   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: CHARLOTTESVILLE                                 LENGTH: Short

JUDGE REJECTS NEWSPAPER'S SUIT

A federal magistrate has dismissed a $52 million antitrust lawsuit filed by the publisher of The Daily Progress of Charlottesville.

Worrell Enterprises Inc., owner of the newspaper, claimed that four real estate firms and four officials of the firms conspired to withhold advertising from the newspaper.

Magistrate Judge B. Waugh Crigler said Tuesday that Worrell Enterprises had no standing for the lawsuit. He said the defendants' attempts to stop advertising in The Daily Progress and launch their own weekly paper of real estate advertisements in February 1992 was a business decision, not a boycott.

by CNB