Legal Opinion
Williamson Oil Company, Inc. v. Philip Morris USA
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 22, 2003No. 02-14037PublishedCited by 161 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARCUS, Circuit Judge:
This is an antitrust action brought pursuant to section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1, and sections 4 and 16 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 15 and 26, by a class of several hundred cigarette wholesalers (“the class” or “the wholesalers”) against Philip Morris, Inc. (“PM”), R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (“RJR”), Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (“B&W”) and Lorillard Tobacco Co. (“Lorillard”) (collectively “the manufacturers”). The class alleges that the manufacturers conspired between 1993 and 2000 to fix cigarette prices at unnaturally high levels, and that this…
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