Legal Opinion
Illinois ex rel. Burris v. Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 4, 1991No. 90-1231PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
The state of Illinois brought this antitrust suit on its own behalf and on behalf of a class of residential and commercial consumers of natural gas in central Illinois. The state alleges that the Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company violated federal and state antitrust laws in the early 1980s by refusing to transport natural gas pur*1472chased by its principal commercial customers (the local distribution companies that distribute gas to residential and most commercial and industrial end-users) through its pipelines. After a bench trial, the district court ruled that Panhandle’s…
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