  We test a sample of satellites of isolated primary galaxies, extracted from
the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS), for any tendency to be aligned along
(or against) the primary-to-satellite radius vector. If tidal effects induce
such an alignment, it would contaminate recent measurements of galaxy halo
masses which use the coherent alignment induced on background galaxies by
gravitational lensing. The mean tangential ellipticity of 1819 satellites
within 500 kpc projected radius is <e_+> = +0.004+-0.008, so no tidal alignment
is detected. This implies at 95% confidence that satellite alignment is less
than a 20% contamination of the alignment signal attributed to galaxy-galaxy
lensing by Smith et al. (2001) and McKay et al. (2001).
