After the magazine distributor Anderson News went into liquidation last year, its biggest remaining asset was antitrust claims against the publishers and wholesalers it blamed for its failure. But alas for Anderson, a Manhattan federal judge didn't think those claims were worth much at all.

These are dire days in the business of distributing magazines to newsstands. First Source Interlink and now Anderson News have alleged a conspiracy on the part of magazine publishers to drive them out of business. And both have called on Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman for rescue.

Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman won a TRO on behalf of the magazine publisher and distributor Source Interlink, which accuses its rivals of a conspiracy to run it out of business by, among other things, cutting off its supply of magazines. The order requires major magazine publishers and disrtibutors to supply Source with their titles, like People, Sports Illustrated, and Time, on the same terms before they cut Source off in February.