National Auto Brokers Corp. v. General Motors Corp.

MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge;

This case demonstrates that unsound ideas cannot be turned into a profit through frivolous antitrust claims and costly litigation. National Auto Brokers Corporation (Nabcor) and several of its affiliates1 appeal from a judgment of the Southern District of New York dismissing their antitrust suit for $3.6 billion against General Motors (GM) and others,2 following a directed verdict at the close of the plaintiffs’ case, which was tried for more than six weeks before Judge Thomas P. Griesa and a jury.

The action was commenced in 1970 against some 63 defendants, including…